Hamaguchi Ryūsuke’s “Drive My Car”: A New Master of Japanese Film Takes the World by Storm

The film’s Japanese poster. (© 2021 Drive My Car Production Committee)

Film director Hamaguchi Ryūsuke. (© 2021 Drive My Car Production Committee)

The multi-language production of Uncle Vanya that is the focus of the second half of the film (left) and two members of the cast of the play: on the left, Janice from Taiwan (played by Sonia Yuan) and Yuna from Korea, who communicates using sign language (played by Park Yoo Rim). (© 2021 Drive My Car production committee.)