Drive My Car

Name: Drive My Car
Released: 2021
Duration: 179 min
Rating: 74.92111959287531
Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Masaki Okada, Reika Kirishima, Yoo-rim Park

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Doraibu mai kâ
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Drama

Japan, 2021, 179 min (Alternative: 172 min)

Directed by:

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Based on:

村上春樹 (short story)

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Only Ryusuke Hamaguchi - with his extraordinary sensitivity to the mysterious resonances of human interactions - could sweep up international awards and galvanize audiences everywhere with a pensive, three-hour movie about an experimental staging of an Anton Chekhov play, presented in nine languages and adapted from Haruki Murakami stories. With Drive My Car, the Japanese director has confirmed his place among contemporary cinema’s most vital voices. Two years after his wife’s unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of "Uncle Vanya" for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor (Masaki Okada) with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur (Toko Miura) with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is ultimately a cathartic exploration of what it means to go on living when there seems to be no road ahead. (Criterion)

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