Product Details

• Actors: Kôji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Masaru Miyazaki, Yoichiro Saito, Sayuri Kokusho
• Directors: Shinji Aoyama
• Format: Animated, Color, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Bandai
• DVD Release Date: September 25, 2007
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000SK5YXA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,767 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Eureka Seven, Volume 9 (Special Edition)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The filmmakers crank up the action as the adventure-fantasy Eureka Seven continues. Holland leads the crew of the Gekkostate in a raid on the Capitol to free the monk Norb from the clutches of Col. Dewey. Taking advantage of the chaos, Dewey launches a coup d'etat to overthrow the Council of Sages and make himself dictator. To advance his scheme, he portrays the Coralians as enemies of mankind and launches a campaign to destroy them, with Anemone leading the death squad. But the battle for the capitol takes a back seat to the characters' revelations. Col. Dewey is Holland's older brother: their conflict is personal, as well as philosophical. Norb describes an elaborate metaphysical structure in which all cognizant entities are a part of the god Vodarac's thoughts, and the number of beings has reached a critical tipping point. Eureka reveals that she knew Renton's father, the heroic Adroc Thurston. Once Renton overcomes his initial shock, this knowledge increases his bond with Eureka--and what may be a vital link between humanity and the Coralians. The Special Edition comes with a T-shirt, a soundtrack CD, and a volume of the original manga by Jinsei Kataoka and Kazuma Kondou. (Rated and older: violence, grotesque imagery, nudity, risqué humor) --Charles Solomon

Product Description

EUREKA SEVEN VOL 9 (SPECIAL EDITION) - DVD Movie

Customer Reviews

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars will this EVER be released on dvd?, May 24, 2002

By A Customer

This is a truly amazing film--demanding, yes, but so is all great art. Stick with it and you will be amply rewarded. But why is this film only available on dvd in Europe and Asia? Region coding = mindless greed.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love for a hijacker, February 15, 2002

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MaRie "qam" (Mannheim) - See all my reviews

No, I don't regret having spent over 3 and 1/2 hours in the movie theater. It was no sacrifice, but yielding so much in return. I never got bored during this time, although the film can hardly be called very suspenseful.

What made me forget the time and relish the story, was the mood created between those four persons, who are so different, but connected by a horrible reminder of a bloody bus hijacking. Missing every assistance of their own relatives, they find together to a new family, helping each other, very slowly regaining the courage of life, until finally, during the last five minutes of the film, the monochrome switches to color, emphasizing the optimistic end.

It's a calm story of friendship and amicable love, of trust in the sense of life and of forgiveness, it's the kind of movie I never forget.

How touching are the 2 scenes, when the girl enumerated the people for whom she was praying: her deceased dad, her gone mom, her brother in prison, her friend the bus driver, and among all these mostly beloved persons, exactly at the third place, she mentioned the dead bus hijacker, so as to care for the soul of this man who had scared her to death and had killed so many innocent passengers.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic In All Areas, May 8, 2002

By A Customer

"Eureka" is one of those films most people would not sit through because of it's near 4 hour length. Forget time, the sit is worth it for this superior Japanese Foreign Film. Exquisively acted and directed, "Eureka," is a film you don't want to miss.

The story revolves around a brother and sister, and a busdriver, all who survived a busjacking. They eventually all three end up together because of tragic circumstances, along with the siblings' cousin for the ride. Though it moves slow, it feels as if you're with them, watching everything they see, and feel. It's the kind of movie you have to pay close attention to in order to be rewarded with it's unexpected ending. The only thing that may make keep you from watching it, besides it's length, is it's thematical material. It is extremely depressing, no happiness, until the end, even though it is still very depressing. Great cinematograpy, camera work, acting, direction, music, sound, and what else can I say, but that Eureka, is in deed, a classic