Production Year: 2000 - Drama - Director: Shinji Aoyama - Original Language: Japanese - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Koji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Yohichiroh Saitoh more
Following a deadly bus hijacking in southwest Japan, the three survivors--Makato (Koji Yakusho), the bus driver; Kozue (Aoi Miyazaki), a young girl; and Naoki (Masaru Miyazaki),... more
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Review: "...[Aoyama] has delivered a picture that is both quintessentially Japanese and unabashedly artsy..." (Box Office, p.55, 01/06/2001)
"...[The] perspectives favored by Aoyama are quietly apt: They integrate changing emotions with rooted natural landscapes..." (Entertainment Weekly, p.53, 11/05/2001)
"...Compelling....A transforming experience....EUREKA has a luminosity expressive of its spirituality and has a score shattering in its spareness..." (Los Angeles Times, p.4, 04/05/2001)
DVD Description
Following a deadly bus hijacking in southwest Japan, the three survivors--Makato (Koji Yakusho), the bus driver; Kozue (Aoi Miyazaki), a young girl; and Naoki (Masaru Miyazaki), her older brother--find further tragedy in their personal lives. When the traumatized Makato eventually contacts Kozue and Naoki two years later, he moves into their home and becomes a father figure for the two children, who have stopped speaking. The trio are then joined by Akihiko (Yohichiroh Saitoh), Kozue and Naoki's college student cousin, and together this odd surrogate family embarks on a road trip across Japan. However, a string of murders appears to be following them and threatens to permanently disrupt their quest to regain normal lives. Clocking in at more than three and a half hours, Shinji Aoyama's EUREKA is a daunting film that rewards patient viewers with an utterly unique and moving cinematic experience. Shot in black and white with a sepia tone, the movie features breathtaking photography by Masaki Tamra. In part an ode to John Ford's THE SEARCHERS, EUREKA features an outstanding performance by Yakusho in the John Wayne-like leading role.
Advantages: a Classic silent film Disadvantages: rather difficult to understand sometimes
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This copy is by Eureka Video masters of the cinema No 8. • Box set, Black & White, PAL, Silent
• Number of discs: 2
• ASIN: B0006HIPQ8
• Catalogue Number: EKA40094
Region 2 encoded.
Now costing £19.99 but with 10% off £17.99
DVD Features:
Special Feature Information:
Original 1927 Orchestral Score By Gottfried Huppertz Newly Arranged By Berndt Heller.
Full Length Audio Commentary By Enno Patalas.
28 page Booklet Featuring Restoration Notes.
The Metropolis Case A Making Of Documentary.44 mins
Restoration Documentary. 9 mins
Production Stills.
Posters.
Costume Designs.
Stills Of Missing Scenes.
Architectural Sketches.
German Intertitles.
Aspect Ratio: 1.33 Full Screen
Sub Titles: English, French, Italian, Spanish.
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Advantages: Good laughs and great goals Disadvantages: Only 58 minutes long
...Soccer AM is a Saturday morning show on Sky sports one every Saturday and it helps cover the English football leagues from the week before and what games are going to be played for the following week. It also has other features like about 3 different guests will come onto the show e.g. one could be an injured footballer, one could be a celebrity and another could be a few band members for a music group. Not only do they have guests and football highlights they also have 8 fans in from a certain football team and some of the crew members have their own part of the show like Tube's question. No this is a big hit on TV soothe first DVD, Soccer AM 1, was quite good so this DVD had good expectations.
In Soccer AM 2 it is different to the normal show as they like to focus on a certain idea that do just another show but on a DVD so...
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Advantages: the film, some geat extras Disadvantages: i wanted more
...Being a DVD virgin you will have to be kind to me and put up with me lack of knowledge on what to write in a review of a DVD. Well the way I see it I love the film and have recently acquired the DVD, from a friend, and so thought what the hey, I mean I have nothing better to do with my Saturday afternoon (well i did so really add Sunday night to that too).
The Matrix was one of the biggest films in its year of release, and rightly so, this is a fantastic film that has both style and substance. It is superb and personally I cannot knock it. Many people took the feeling that this was just special effects, wrong the story is so intricate and complicated you cannot watch it only once. This is one of those films that revels something new every time you see it and never fails to entertain.
So here goes, the confessions of a virgin...
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