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Shinji Aoyama's eighth feature film, Eureka so moved audiences and critics that it became one of the most surprising successes of 2000, earning the International Film Critics Award at Cannes. Its emotionally devastating examination of how people cope with the aftermath of tragedy revealed a grace and understanding that only the greatest works-whether cinema, art, or literature-can express. Eureka is a paean to survival, following the only three survivors of a deadly bus hijacking-the driver (Koji Yakusho: The Eel, Charisma) and two children-as they unite to drive across Japan, eventually to form a type of family. Aoyama called the film “a work of mourning,” its dramatic, overwhelming landscapes inspired by Ford's The Searchers, and its austere black-and-white tones by Godard's statement that such colors are, in film, the colors of working through grief. Even more relevant in today's world of unfathomable tragedy, Eureka approaches its truths steadily, allowing the viewer's own emotions time to linger, and to heal.