Drive My Car
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.
Screenplay: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe
Cinematography: Hidetoshi Shinomiya
Editing: Azusa Yamazaki
Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura, Masaki Okada, Reika Kirishima
Producer: Teruhisa Yamamoto
Production: C&I Entertainment Inc., Culture Entertainment Co., Ltd., Bitters End, Inc.
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
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.
MENA Premiere
Japan
Fiction, 2021, Color, 179 min
Japanese, Korean, English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Tagalog, Indonesian, German, Malaysian
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
