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Drive My Car (2021)

Directed by:
Ryusuke Hamaguchi

COUNTRY
Japan

GENRE
Drama

NORWEGIAN TITLE
Drive My Car

RUNNING TIME
179 minutes

Produced by:
Teruhisa Yamamoto
Written by (based on the short story by Haruki Murakami):
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Takamasa Oe


Cast includes:

CHARACTER ACTOR/ACTRESS RATING

Yūsuke Kafuku

Hidetoshi Nishijima -
Misaki Watari Tōko Miura -

Oto Kafuku

Reika Kirishima -

Lee Yoo-na

Park Yu-rim

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Gong Yoon-soo Jin Dae-yeon -
Kōji Takatsuki Masaki Okada -

 

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.

Copyright © 05.10.2024 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang

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