Drive My Car(Movie, 2021)

Name: Drive My Car
Genre: Drama
Released: 2021
Duration: T02:49:00
Rating: 3.7

Original title: "ドライブ・マイ・カー" (Japanese/JA)

| 2h 49min | Genre: Drama

Rating: 3.7/5 (with 458 votes)

Drive My Car (Japanese: ドライブ・マイ・カー, Hepburn: Doraibu Mai Kā) is a 2021 Japanese drama film directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi and written by Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe. It follows a theatre director (played by Hidetoshi Nishijima), who directs a multilingual production of Uncle Vanya while dealing with the death of his wife (Reika Kirishima). It is based on Haruki Murakami's short story of the same name and other stories from his 2014 collection Men Without Women. Tōko Miura, Park Yu-rim, Jin Dae-yeon, Sonia Yuan, Ahn Hwitae, Perry Dizon, Satoko Abe, and Masaki Okada also star. Drive My Car had its world premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or and won three awards, including Best Screenplay. The film received widespread critical acclaim with praise towards Hamaguchi's direction and ... ()

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Awards & Nominations for Drive My Car

Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film Japan Academy Film Prize for Picture of the Year Academy Award for Best International Feature Film Fipresci Grand Prix nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture nominated for: David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film nominated for: César Award for Best Foreign Film

About Drive My Car

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

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Theatrical Trailer (Trailer)

Cannes Film Festival Clip 1 (Clip)

Cannes Film Festival Clip 3 (Clip)

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Drive My Car Trailer OmdU Deutsch | German (Trailer, DE)

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Drive My Car (2021) - Cannes Winner: Best Screenplay - HD Trailer - English Subtitles (Trailer, JA)

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Additional Information

Official websites:

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Production country: Japan

Plays in: Tokyo, Hiroshima, Hokkaido

Based on: "Drive My Car" (find it on Amazon)

Made by: Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K.K., Bitters End, C&I Entertainment, Quaras, Asahi Shimbunsha, Bungeishunju, L'ESPACE VISION CO.,LTD, Culture Entertainment, Agency for Cultural Affairs, J-LOD, nekojarashi

Original language: Japanese (JA)

Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN), Indonesian (ID), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Malay (MS), Tagalog / Filipino (TL), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Translated into 30 languages: Arabic (AR), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Indonesian (ID), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 11/24/2021 (World premiere: 08/18/2021)

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masaki Okada, Reika Kirishima, Tōko Miura, Sonia Yuan, Park Yu-rim, Jin Dae-yeon, Ahn Hwi-tae

Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Producer: Teruhisa Yamamoto

Screenwriter: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Ōe

Director of Photography: Hidetoshi Shinomiya

Musical Conductor: Eiko Ishibashi

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"قودي سيارتي"

"Drive My Carais"

"Карай колата ми"

"Drajv maj kár"

"ماشین مرا بران"

"Keyra bílinn minn"

"Doraibu mai kā"

"Doraibu mai kâ"

"드라이브 마이 카"

"Vadi manu mašīnu"

"Conduz o Meu Carro"

"Сядь за руль моей машины"

"สุดทางรัก"

"在車上"

"Кермуй моїм авто"

"Сядь за кермо моєї машини"

Keywords: theater play, driver, bilingual, theater director, infidelity, loss of child, old car, grief, slow cinema, road trip, japan, hiroshima, japan, monologue, sensuality, sign languages, based on short story

Revenue: 15,308,325 USD

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