Drive My Car (2021) 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.   For ticket information, visit: https://www.walkerart.org/whats-on/drive-my-car-by-ryusuke-hamaguchi/ (https://www.walkerart.org/whats-on/drive-my-car-by-ryusuke-hamaguchi/)   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