Drive My Car is a 2021 Japanese drama directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, adapting a Haruki Murakami short story about a theater director who, while grieving his wife's death, stages a multilingual production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima and forms a quiet bond with the young woman assigned to drive him. It won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film and the Best Screenplay award at Cannes, and became the first Japanese film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Original Language AwardAcademy Award for Best International Feature Film 1 AwardNational Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film 1 AwardJapan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year 1 Release Year In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Japan, originated there.
- Also in Language Atlas: Japanese, original language there.
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is a 2021 Japanese drama film
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Drive My Car is a 2021 Japanese drama directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, adapting a Haruki Murakami short story about a theater director who, while grieving his wife's death, stages a multilingual production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima and forms a quiet bond with the young woman assigned to drive him.
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