Drive My Car

(2021)

★ 7.4 IMDb · 1,559 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2021

Runtime: 179 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 濱口竜介

Cast: Хидэтоси Нисидзима, 三浦透子, Масаки Окада, Рэика Кирисима, 박유림, 진대연, 袁子芸, Ahn Hwi-tae, Perry Dizon, 安部聡子

Plot

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.

Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a renowned stage actor and director, receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There, he meets Misaki Watari (Toko Miura), a taciturn young woman assigned by the festival to chauffeur him in his beloved red Saab 900. As the production's premiere approaches, tensions mount amongst the cast and crew, not least between Yusuke and Koshi Takatsuki, a handsome TV star who shares an unwelcome connection to Yusuke's late wife. Forced to confront painful truths raised from his past, Yusuke begins - with the help of his driver - to face the haunting mysteries his wife left behind.