2021 · 179 min · Drama
Drive My Car is Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Cannes-winning masterpiece — a meditative, emotionally devastating film about grief, art, and connection. Based on Haruki Murakami's short story, the film follows a theater director who is hired to stage a multilingual production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima, and gradually forms a profound bond with his mysterious young driver. Winner of the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
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Drive My Car is based on a short story by Haruki Murakami from his 2014 collection Men Without Women. Director Hamaguchi expanded it into a 3-hour film and incorporated elements from two other Murakami stories from the same collection.
Yes. Drive My Car won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 2022 Oscars. It was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay — the first Japanese film nominated for Best Picture since Rashomon in 1952.
Drive My Car runs approximately 179 minutes (just under 3 hours). Despite the length, most viewers find it completely absorbing.
Drive My Car is primarily in Japanese, but the multilingual production of Uncle Vanya at the film's center features dialogue in Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, and Korean Sign Language.