Official Selection Out of Competition · 43rd Edition
DRIVE MY CAR
Director
Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI
Country
Japan
Runtime
2 h 59 min
Language
Japanese, Korean, English, Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, Tagalog, Indonesian, German, Malay
Premiere
MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)
Synopsis
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 Vanja at a theatre 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 unveile
Cast
Hidetoshi NISHIJIMA, Toko MIURA, Masaki OKADA, Reika KIRISHIMA, Park YURIM, Jin DAEYEON
Screenplay
Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI, Oe TAKAMASA
Producers
Yamamoto TERUHISA
About the Director
After graduating from the University of Tokyo, he worked in the film industry for a few years before entering the graduate film programme at the Tokyo University of the Arts. His graduation film, “Passion”, screened at San Sebastian Film Festival in 2008. His 317-minute “Happy Hour” premiered at Locarno and won awards at numerous film festivals. Asako I & II was selected for the competition at Cannes in 2018. He also wrote the screenplay for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wife of a Spy, which won the Silver Lion at Venice in 2020.
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