Drive My Car (2021)

Movie Details

Original Title ドライブ・マイ・カー

Original Language JA

Budget $1,300,000

Revenue $15,356,046

Status Released

Popularity 2.2

Cast

Hidetoshi Nishijima

Yūsuke Kafuku

Popularity: 1.9

Toko Miura

Misaki Watari

Popularity: 1.3

Masaki Okada

Kōshi Takatsuki

Popularity: 1.9

Reika Kirishima

Oto Kafuku

Popularity: 1.5

Park Yu-rim

Lee Yoo-na

Popularity: 1.1

Jin Dae-yeon

Gong Yoon-su

Popularity: 0.5

Sonia Yuan

Janice Chang

Popularity: 0.7

Ahn Hwi-tae

Ryu Jong-ui

Popularity: 0.1

Perry Dizon

Roy Rossello

Popularity: 1.8

Satoko Abe

Yuzuhara

Popularity: 0.5

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Hiroko Matsuda

Yumi Etô

Popularity: 0.0

Toshiaki Inomata

Takashi Kimura

Popularity: 0.1

Key Crew

Executive Producer Kazuo Nakanishi, Yuji Sadai

Producer Jin Suzuki, Yoshito Nakabe, Osamu Kubota

Screenplay Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe

Editor Azusa Yamazaki

Cinematography Lee Tae-hun

Director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi

Production

Bitters End

C&I entertainment

Culture Entertainment

J-LOD

nekojarashi

Quaras

Videos & Trailers

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'Drive My Car' (Japan) Wins Best International Film at the 94th Oscars

Featurette

Official Trailer #2

Trailer

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi & Min Jin Lee on Drive My Car, Grief, and Silence

Featurette

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi can't believe he won the Film Not in the English Language award | EE BAFTAs 2022

Featurette

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Keywords

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Reviews from TMDB

CinemaSerf 7/10

Mar 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 ... Read more

badelf 10/10

Jun 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 Un ... Read more