Drive My Car

Nishijima Hidetoshi is a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Then one day she disappears.

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (born December 16, 1978, in Kanagawa, Japan) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the film “Drive My Car” (2021), which has been nominated for a number of prestigious film awards, including four Academy Awards, and has just recently won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language.

In the privacy of a car – a moving room, if one looks at it from a different point of view – a man and a woman share silences in a circular open road. Kafuku, the passenger, is a theater actor and director; Misaki, the driver, is a young woman provided by the producers of a theater festival in Hiroshima.