A new trailer has landed for the Cannes premiering Drive My Car which is set to open in some territories very soon. Ryusuke Hamaguchi directs the film, which was the winner of the Best Screenplay, Ecumenical Jury Prize, & Fipresci International Critics Prizes at Cannes. It lands in cinemas from early December.
Hamaguchi wrote the screenplay for the film with Takamasa Oe (adapted from the short story by Haruki Murakami).
Here’s what it is all about.
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 Koji 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.
Drive My Car opens stateside from 3rd December.
Here’s the trailer.
