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Drive My Car (Japanese: ドライブ・マイ・カー, Hepburn: Doraibu Mai Kā) is a 2021 Japanese drama film [4] directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Takamasa Oe. Based on Haruki Murakami 's 2014 short story of the same name , [ 5 ] it stars Hidetoshi Nishijima as a theatre director who directs a multilingual ...
Drive My Car received numerous awards and nominations, particularly for Hamaguchi's direction, Nishijima's performance, and the screenplay. Hamaguchi and Oe became the first Japanese writers to win Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival, [ 8 ] where the film also won the FIPRESCI Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury . [ 9 ]
When he objects that his "prospects [are] good", she retorts, "Working for peanuts is all very fine/But I can show you a better time." When he agrees to her proposal, she admits, "I got no car and it's breakin' my heart/But I've found a driver and that's a start." [4] According to McCartney, "'Drive my car' was an old blues euphemism for sex". [5]
Drive My Car may refer to "Drive My Car" (song), 1965 song by The Beatles "Drive My Car" (short story), from the 2014 Men Without Women collection by Haruki Murakami Drive My Car, 2021 Japanese drama-road film adaptation directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
The short story "Drive My Car" (and, to a lesser degree, "Scheherazade" and “Kino”) served as the basis for the 2021 film of the same name by Ryusuke Hamaguchi. [13] The film was nominated for four awards at the 94th Academy Awards, winning Best International Feature Film, and received numerous other accolades.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi (濱口 竜介, Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, [hamaꜜɡɯtɕi ɾʲɯꜜːsɯ̥ke] ⓘ; born 16 December 1978) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.An alumnus of the University of Tokyo and the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, he started gaining attention in his home country with the graduate film Passion (2008).
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