Overview
Yûsuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) lives as a successful thespian and theater director in a loving marriage with his wife, Oto (Reika Kirishima), a playwright. However, their seemingly idyllic life embarks on a downward spiral after Oto inexplicably disappears. Two years later and believing his wife may be dead, Yûsuke receives an invitation to direct a play in Hiroshima. As he travels to and from the theater, he begins a turbulent and intense relationship with his female chauffeur, Misaki Watari (Tôko Miura). Based on the short story by Haruki Murakami. Directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.
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Details
- Format: Blu-ray
- Run Time: 179
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 715515274814
- Genre: DRAMA
- Rating: NR
- Release Date: July 2022
Movie Reviews
Reviews:
"[T]his highbrow road movie is an absorbing, technically assured piece of work with poetic depths and novelistic ambitions." - 07/11/2021 Hollywood Reporter
"[I]t pursues a kind of cinematic stillness to match Murakami’s plain, serene prose, and takes things suitably slow -- this is the kind of film where the opening credits arrive 40 minutes in -- as it ponders just how much time can heal all wounds." - 07/11/2021 Variety
"A quiet masterpiece from the Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, DRIVE MY CAR is a story about grief, love and work as well as the soul-sustaining, life-shaping power of art." - 11/24/2021 New York Times
5 stars out of 5 -- "It is a film about the link between confession, creativity and sexuality and the unending mystery of other people’s lives and secrets." - 07/14/2021 The Guardian
"Bountiful in subtle imagery from cinematographer Hidetoshi Shinomiya, the film mines majestic visual symbolism from seemingly ordinary occurrences." - 11/24/2021 RogerEbert.com
"DRIVE MY CAR contains many extended takes in which actors workshop lines and scenarios through improvisation. Language is key here -- be it Japanese, with its nuances of politeness and elliptical implication, or body languages and facial expressions." - 12/03/2021 Sight and Sound
"[An] intimate epic about plays, tragedies and automobiles..." - 12/17/2021 Los Angeles Times
"DRIVE MY CAR is one of the most ineffably beautiful films to come along in years. Among many other things, it’s about figuring out who other people are, and why they do what they do, by first understanding ourselves." - 12/07/2021 Wall Street Journal
"Ryûsuke Hamaguchi engineers an elaborate narrative contraption that holds control and contingency in equal poise: the film’s voluble dialogue and intricate moving parts draw their power from the mysteries -- human, vehicular -- that neither speech nor plot can explain." - 12/16/2021 Film Comment
"[T]his is no claustrophobic, single-setting psychological thriller...Rather, it feels as expansive as the whole world." - 12/28/2021 Washington Post
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