Winner of three prizes at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, including Best Screenplay. Yusuke Kafuku was a theatre artist and a writer who was married to Oto Kafuku, a screenplay writer. 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. 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 Koshi Takatsuki, a handsome TV star who shares an unwelcome connection to Yusuke’s late wife. As suggested by the title of Drive My Car Japan’s official submission to this year’s Oscars large parts of the three-hour film take place inside an automobile, in which a man is. There, he meets Misaki Watari (Toko Miura), a taciturn young woman assigned by the festival to chauffeur him in his beloved red Saab 900. Eric Gaillard/Reuters (Hamaguchi) Philip Cheung for The New York. 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. 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. Ryusuke Hamaguchi, left, and his film Drive My Car are up for the same awards that Bong Joon Ho and Parasite won. 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. In this case, specifically, an immaculate Talladega Red 1990 (or 1991) Saab 900 Aero coupe driven by the main character, Kafuku. Now nominated for four Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best International Feature. Ryusuke Hamaguchi, right, the director of Drive My Car, celebrating on Sunday after the film won an Academy Award for best international feature. Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Oscar-nominated 2021 film, Drive My Car (which is now streaming on HBO Max), directly addresses the fluidity of language in a contemporary world.
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