![]() ![]() Yet here we are, with his three-hour opus "Drive My Car" commanding major international awards attention, and rightly so.Īdapted from a short story by Haruki Murakami, "Drive My Car" is a slow but rewarding ride, a reality it acknowledges with a wink: Its opening credits don’t appear until a whopping forty minutes into the film. In a year where Japanese auteur Ryusuke Hamaguchi put out not one, but two all-out masterpieces - seriously, check out his three-part anthology of love, lust, and reconnection "World of Fortune and Fantasy" if you can - it feels downright criminal to just talk about one. Our critic’s take: A patient, rewarding ride The nominations: In addition to its Best Picture nod, "Drive My Car" was also nominated for Best Director (Ryusuke Hamaguchi), Best Adapted Screenplay (Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe) and Best International Feature Film. The cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Masaki Okada, Reika Kirishima, Yoo-rim Park, Sonia Yuan. Screenplay by Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe. 179 minutes Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Janus Films will debut Drive My Car in select US theaters (NY) on November 24th, 2021 this fall (in LA on Dec 3rd).The premise: "A visualization - more than an adaptation - of Haruki Murakami’s eponymous short story, "Drive My Car" is a road movie sui generis that travels paths of loneliness, loss, and bereavement, and investigates the deepest meaning of artistic representation as a universal key to understanding human nature." This premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Drive My Car is directed by acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, of the films Solaris, Passion, The Depths, Intimacies, Touching the Skin of Eeriness, Happy Hour, Asako I & II previously, and this year's Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy. Forced to confront painful truths raised from his past, Yusuke begins - with the help of his driver – to face the haunting mysteries his wife left behind. As the production's premiere approaches, tensions mount amongst the cast and crew, not least between Yusuke and Koji Takatsuki, a handsome TV star who shares an unwelcome connection to Yusuke’s late wife. Arriving there, he meets Misaki Watari (Toko Miura), a taciturn young woman assigned by the festival to chauffeur him in his beloved red Saab 900. Two years after his wife’s unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a renowned stage actor and director, receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. Here's the official US trailer (+ poster) for Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car, from YouTube: ![]() An intellectual film for intrepid cinephiles that love intricate stories and complex characters. "Adapted from Haruki Murakami's short story, Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car is a haunting road movie traveling a path of love, loss, acceptance, and peace." The film stars Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yûsuke, Toko Miura, Masaki Okada, Reika Kirishima, Park Yurim, and Jin Daeyeon. There he meets a young woman who is assigned to be his driver, and takes him around in his beloved red Saab 900. He's then hired to direct a performance of Uncle Vanya and heads down to Hiroshima to put it on. ![]() Nishijima Hidetoshi is a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Drive My Car initially premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, where it won three key prizes, including Best Screenplay from the jury. "What can we do? We must live our lives." Janus Films + Criterion have debuted an official US trailer for an acclaimed Japanese film titled Drive My Car, the second feature film this year from filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi (his other one Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy won awards at Berlinale). ![]()
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