Uniform Title |
Drive my car (Motion picture : 2021) |
Title |
Drive my car. |
Published |
Australia : Distributed by Madman Entertainment, ©2021. |
Australia : Distributed by Bitters End, ©2021. |
Description |
1 DVD-video (179 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
Notes |
Catalogued from container. |
Madman Entertainment : POT0003 |
Originally released as a motion picture in 2021. |
Based on the 2014 short story of the same name by Haruki Murakami. |
Credits |
Directed and written by Ryusuke Hamaguchi ; written by Takamasa Oe ; produced by Teruhisa Yamamoto. |
Performers |
Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Masaki Okada. |
Summary |
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 Koshi 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. |
Target audience note |
Censorship classification : MA15+. |
System details |
DVD video. |
DVD video ; Dolby Digital ; PAL ; Region 4 ; Anamorphic widescreen 16:9. |
Language note |
Japanese and Korean. English subtitles. |
Awards note |
Cannes Film Festival Best Screenplay, FIPRESCI Prize, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, 2021. |
Golden Globe Awards Best Foreign Language Film, 2021 ; Academy Awards Best International Feature Film, 2022. |
Subjects |
Murakami, Haruki, -- 1949-Film adaptations |
Husband and wife -- Drama |
Children -- Death -- Drama |
Adultery -- Drama |
Death -- Drama |
Chauffeurs -- Drama |
Actors -- Drama |
Feature films -- Japan |
Motion pictures, Japanese |
Foreign language films |
Genre |
Road films |
Film adaptations |
Feature films |
Fiction films |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired |
Other Names |
Hamaguchi, Ryūsuke, 1978- director, screenwriter. |
Oe, Takamasa screenwriter. |
Yamamoto, Teruhisa producer. |
Nishijima, Hidetoshi, 1971- actor. |
Miura, Toko actor. |
Kirishima, Reika, 1972- actor. |
Okada, Masaki, 1989- actor. |
Murakami, Haruki, 1949-. Drive my car Motion picture adaptation of (work): |
Links to Related Works |
Subject References:
Authors:
- Hamaguchi, Ryūsuke, 1978- .
- Kirishima, Reika, 1972- .
- Miura, Toko .
- Murakami, Haruki, 1949-. Drive my car .
- Nishijima, Hidetoshi, 1971- .
- Oe, Takamasa .
- Okada, Masaki, 1989- .
- Yamamoto, Teruhisa .
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