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Drive My
Car (2021)
  
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Directed
by:
Ryusuke
Hamaguchi |
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COUNTRY
Japan |
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GENRE
Drama |
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NORWEGIAN TITLE
Drive My Car |
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RUNNING
TIME
179 minutes |
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Produced
by:
Teruhisa Yamamoto |
Written by
(based on the short story by Haruki Murakami):
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Takamasa Oe |
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Cast includes:
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CHARACTER |
ACTOR/ACTRESS |
RATING |
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Yūsuke Kafuku |
Hidetoshi Nishijima |
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Misaki Watari |
Tōko Miura |
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Oto Kafuku |
Reika Kirishima |
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Lee Yoo-na |
Park Yu-rim |
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Gong Yoon-soo |
Jin Dae-yeon |
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Kōji Takatsuki |
Masaki Okada |
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Review
This adaptation is loosely based on
Haruki Murakami’s homonymous 2014 short story about mourning a loved
one who wronged you never quite comes alive. The director and
co-writer Ryusuke Hamaguchi has a penchant for dwellingly
understated scenes, but he cannot quite lift the story up from its
inherently literary quality, making every incurred and discussed
emotion in this decadent picture feel academic and thought-out.
There is, however, fine cinematography and some creative ideas in
the mix that might hold your interest, albeit hardly for the
excessive 179 minutes.
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