Drive My Car by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi

Join filmmaker Ryūsuke Hamaguchi in person for Drive My Car, his Oscar-winning road epic traversing love, loss, and the path of human interactions with exceptional emotional candor.

The film follows actor-director Yusuke Kafuku, who is invited to stage a multilingual production of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya as part of a residency in Hiroshima. His interactions with his wife, Oto, the actor Takatsuki, and most notably the chauffeur Misaki chart his self-examination during this window of creative time. Based on a short story by the international bestselling author Haruki Murakami, Hamaguchi’s tour de force received four Oscar nominations, becoming the first Japanese film to receive a Best Picture nomination and winning Best International Feature. 2021, Japan, DCP, in Japanese and Korean Sign Language with English subtitles, 179 min. 

A conversation with Hamaguchi follows the screening.

Copresented by the Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and the Mary Griggs Burke Endowment in Asian Studies.

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