Drive My Car (2021)
Coming Out at August 18, 2021 in theaters (November 24, 2021 in US theaters)
“Doraibu mai kâ”
Drama
Drive My Car is drama film directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, and written by Haruki Murakami, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe. The film stars Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Yoo-rim Park, Dae-Young Jin, Sonia Yuan and Satoko Abe. The film primiered at July 11, 2021 on Cannes Film Festival.
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. There, he meets Misaki Watari (Toko Miura), a taciturn young woman assigned by the festival to chauffeur him in his beloved red Saab 900. 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. 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.
►Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
►Writers: Haruki Murakami, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe
►Stars: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Yoo-rim Park, Dae-Young Jin, Sonia Yuan, Satoko Abe
►Cast
| Hidetoshi Nishijima | ► | Yûsuke Kafuku |
| Tôko Miura | ► | Misaki Watari |
| Reika Kirishima | ► | Oto, Kafuku’s Wife |
| Yoo-rim Park | ► | Lee Yoon-a |
| Dae-Young Jin | ► | Kon Yoon-su |
| Sonia Yuan | ► | Janice Chan |
| Satoko Abe | ► | Yuhara |
| Masaki Okada | ► | Kôji Takatsuki |
| Perry Dizon | ► | |
| Ann Fite | ► |