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Eureka (Yűreka)

Eureka (Yűreka) (2000)

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90

Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 42
Fresh: 38 | Rotten: 4

With its subtitles and a running time nearing four hours, Eureka certainly places demands upon its viewers. For those with the patience, however, this visually lovely film builds to an emotionally resonant vision of transcendence.

84

Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 3

With its subtitles and a running time nearing four hours, Eureka certainly places demands upon its viewers. For those with the patience, however, this visually lovely film builds to an emotionally resonant vision of transcendence.

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88

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Average Rating: 4.1/5
User Ratings: 1,828

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Movie Info

One of the leading voices in the new Japanese cinema, Shinji Aoyama directs this saga about memory, grief, and redemption. Shot in stark black and white, the film opens with the sudden and inexplicably bloody hijacking of a bus in rural Kyushu. The crazed gunman (Riju Go) shoots two passengers in the back as they try to flee. Stepping out of the bus for some fresh air, the hijacker drags bus driver Makoto (played by the ubiquitous Koji Yakusho) along for cover. When the driver faints and falls

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All Critics (51) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (4) | DVD (3)

Aoyama needs to put the editing into other hands.

May 11, 2001 | Comment (1)
Hollywood Reporter
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This is a film to visually savor.

May 4, 2001 Full Review Source: Washington Post
Washington Post
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You feel time slipping through your fingers, but, gorgeous and studied to a fault, the film doesn't give you time to look down at your hands.

May 4, 2001 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
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Its rewards are greater than any bright-and-tight Hollywood movie you've seen so far this year.

May 4, 2001 Full Review Source: Newsday
Newsday
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Don't let the running time scare you away from the exceptional bit of filmmaking.

May 4, 2001
New York Post
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To watch this film, in short, can be a transforming experience.

May 4, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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Beautiful film. The length of this may frighten people away but it shouldn't, this suspends time.

July 1, 2006 Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com

Writer-director Shinji Aoyama obviously has talent and a great photographic eye ... but the sheer size of Eureka detracts.

December 21, 2001 Full Review Source: Baseline.Hollywood.com
Baseline.Hollywood.com

Koji Yakusho grounds the film with his emotional truth

May 23, 2001 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews
Reeling Reviews

Without question, the film could have been a bit shorter, especially towards the end, but Eureka is a powerful, luxurious study of lives changed in the aftermath of violence.

May 11, 2001 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

Patient viewers will find ample rewards in its 217 minutes of eloquently filmed cinema.

May 7, 2001 Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science Monitor

Events and characters point in familiar directions, but Eureka is rarely familiar.

May 7, 2001 Full Review Source: Philadelphia City Paper
Philadelphia City Paper

Audience Reviews for Eureka (Yűreka)

arrgghhh, such a fucking indulgent and boring film. This felt like every minute of its 220 minute length. The whole serial killer subplot is stupid and totally unbelievable. The impressive sepia toned cinematography cannot save this pretentious mess.
February 23, 2007
Een Japanse arthouse van dik 3,5 uur waar niet veel in gebeurde; dat het bleef boeien is best knap. =)
February 26, 2011
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Foreign Titles

  • Eureka (DE)
  • Eureka (UK)
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