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Drive My Car (2021)

Name: Drive My Car
Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Genre: drama film
Rating: 7.5

Drive My Car is a 2021 Japanese drama film directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Takamasa Oe. Based on Haruki Murakami's 2014 short story of the same name, it stars Hidetoshi Nishijima as a theatre director who directs a multilingual production of Uncle Vanya while dealing with the death of his wife. Reika Kirishima, Tōko Miura, Park Yu-rim, Jin Dae-yeon, Sonia Yuan, Ahn Hwitae, Perry…

Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi · Shot by Hidetoshi Shinomiya · Music by Eiko Ishibashi

Behind the scenes

Drive My Car: What is Intertextuality | Video Essay — Accented Cinema · 13 min
Understanding Drive My Car (2021) | To Open Up — Film is just Moving Pictures · 6 min
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi on Drive My Car | NYFF59 — Film at Lincoln Center · 22 min
'Drive My Car' (Japan) Wins Best International Film | 94th Oscars — Oscars · 4 min
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi & Min Jin Lee on Drive My Car, Grief, and Silence — Film at Lincoln Center · 28 min
Oscar Winner Ryusuke Hamaguchi on his Film DRIVE MY CAR Q&A — American Film Institute · 21 min
DRIVE MY CAR Q&A | TIFF 2021 — TIFF · 21 min

Elsewhere

More by Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Passion — 2008
The Depths — 2010
Intimacies — 2012
Happy Hour — 2015
Asako I & II — 2018
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy — 2021
Evil Does Not Exist — 2023
Gift — 2023
All of a Sudden — 2026

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