Drama
Japanese (ドライブ・マイ・カー)
2021 · Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi · 179 min
Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, accepts a residency in Hiroshima to mount a multilingual production of Uncle Vanya. The festival insists he be driven, and the young woman assigned to his red Saab becomes an unlikely presence in his days. A quiet, patient drama about grief, performance and what people leave unsaid.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of 21st-century international art cinema, and a leading example of the contemporary literary adaptation that reworks its source rather than illustrating it. It also confirmed Japanese cinema's renewed global standing after a long gap.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a film about listening: to voices, to texts, to silence, and to what a person cannot say aloud.
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