Shinji Aoyama
For "Eureka", writer and director Shinji Aoyama got inspiration from the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack. According to "The Guardian", his research "also took in accounts of Holocaust survivors and studies of Israeli terrorists, as well as his own experiences of growing up in a society of widening generation gaps." Aoyama stated that he was influenced by Alain Resnais's film "Hiroshima mon amour", John Ford's film "The Searchers", Sonic Youth's album "Daydream Nation", and Jim O'Rourke's album "Eureka". The film was shot in black-and-white and printed in color. Filming took place in Kyushu. The last scene was shot near the volcano Mount Aso.