The Criterion Collection has announced that the critically-acclaimed Drive My Car from director Ryusuke Hamaguchi will debut on home entertainment this July. The specific details about this release and its special features will be detailed in the July 2022 announcement next month. The film is nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best International Feature.
This announcement comes as welcome news to film fans who have seen this incredibly moving epic which has defied expectations to become one of the most successful arthouse hits in some time. The film is the most honored international film of the year having won the Best International film from the Gotham Awards, Golden Globes, Independent Spirit, Critics Choice and BAFTA. It was recently awarded the Best Film at New York Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics Association and National Society of Film Critics. The film is currently available to stream on HBO Max.
Synopsis: 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. Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s DRIVE MY CAR is a haunting road movie traveling a path of love, loss, acceptance, and peace.
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