“I haven’t agreed for you to be my driver yet”
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Winner of Best International Feature Film at the 2021 Oscars, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s superb Drive My Car is adapted from a short story by Haruki Murakami. After the unexpected loss of his wife Oto, theatre director Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) takes on a job staging Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima. There, to his initial reluctance, he’s assigned a curious young woman Misaki Watari (Toko Miura) as his personal chauffeur. As the production approaches and Yusuke and Misaki learn to navigate each other’s differences, Yusuke confronts the ghosts of his past, and looks to the future.
Deservedly one of the best reviewed and most awarded films of 2021, Drive My Car is a modern masterpiece. Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s profile has been steadily growing over the past decade, with his previous films Happy Hour, Asako I & II and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy garnering major festival acclaim and his new work Evil Does Not Exist demonstrating his commitment to pushing the boundaries of cinema. With Drive My Car, Hamaguchi elevates his craft even further, and cements his status as one of the world’s leading directors.