

Drive My Car
ドライブ・マイ・カー
Go on living.
Overview
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 Vanya at a theater 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 unveiled.
- Budget
- $1,300,000
- Revenue
- $15,356,046
- Production
- Bitters End, C&I entertainment, Culture Entertainment, nekojarashi, Quaras, Bungeishunju, Nippan Group Holdings, The Asahi Shimbun, L'espace Vision
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Cast

Hidetoshi Nishijima
Yūsuke Kafuku

Toko Miura
Misaki Watari

Masaki Okada
Kōshi Takatsuki

Reika Kirishima
Oto Kafuku

Park Yu-rim
Lee Yoo-na

Jin Dae-yeon
Gong Yoon-su

Sonia Yuan
Janice Chang

Ahn Hwi-tae
Ryu Jong-ui

Perry Dizon
Roy Rossello

Satoko Abe
Yuzuhara

Toshiaki Inomata
Takashi Kimura

Takako Yamamura
Kaoru Komagata

Ryo Iwase

Shoichiro Tanigawa

Yoshinori Miyata

Saki Suzuki
Crew
- Director
- Ryusuke Hamaguchi
- Writers
- Ryusuke Hamaguchi,Takamasa Oe
- Producers
- Kazuo Nakanishi,Yuji Sadai,Teruhisa Yamamoto
- Cinematography
- Hidetoshi Shinomiya,Lee Tae-hun
- Composer
- Eiko Ishibashi,Yoshitaka Fujimoto
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CinemaSerf
March 27, 2022
"Kafuku" (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is an accomplished stage actor who is directing a performance of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" with a group of young actors. He arrives at the venue in his red Saab motor car, determined that only he will drive himself. That's not the policy of the theatre, though, and soon he is placed in the capable hands of the somewhat laconic "Misaki" (Tôko Miura) and as the two start to get used to one and other, and he starts to get to know his new cast, the story unfolds revealin…
badelf
June 29, 2022
I find this film to be a near perfect drama. I understand that most Americans and perhaps younger viewers everywhere will not appreciate the pacing of the movie. There are two things about this movie that make it an actor's movie. First is the play within the play: the play within is Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, and, like most Russian classics, it's about the human condition and the response to suffering. It's the play within the play because the film slowly reveals a mirror of Chekhov's play itsel…



