The theatre festival requires that he be chauffeured in his own car for insurance reasons, and he eventually bonds with his reserved young driver, Misaki Watari. Two years later, Yūsuke accepts a residency in Hiroshima to direct a multilingual production of Uncle Vanya. After the funeral, Yūsuke breaks down while performing the title role in Uncle Vanya. After he spends the day driving alone, Yūsuke returns home to find Oto dead from a brain hemorrhage. One day, Oto asks to have a serious conversation with Yūsuke. After a car crash, Yūsuke discovers he has glaucoma in one eye and must take eyedrops to prevent blindness. Yūsuke returns home early one day and finds his wife having sex with Kōji, but does not disturb them. After Yūsuke performs in Waiting for Godot, Oto introduces him to young television star Kōji Takatsuki. He learns his lines by listening to tapes recorded by Oto, while driving his red Saab 900 Turbo. Stage actor and director Yūsuke Kafuku lives in Tokyo with his wife Oto, a screenwriter who conceives her stories during sex and narrates them to him. Drive My Car was the first Japanese film to receive a Best Picture nomination (as opposed to Best International Film). It was nominated for four awards at the 94th Academy Awards, winning Best International Feature Film, and received numerous other accolades.
The film received widespread critical acclaim with praise towards Hamaguchi's direction and screenplay. ĭrive 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.
It is based on Haruki Murakami's short story "Drive My Car" and other stories from his 2014 collection Men Without Women. 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. 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.
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