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* {{Fauxshadow}}: Early in the film, Kafuku gets into a minor accident due to what is revealed to be the early onset of cataracts. He is told he has to take eye drops regularly to avoid it getting worse. This never actually comes up again despite the premise of him being forced to have someone drive him around in his beloved red Saab while he's on duty working at the theater festival. The reason for the mandatory chauffeur doesn't even have anything to do with him specifically but rather due to a wreck that a staff member got into years earlier.
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''Drive My Car'' (ドライブ・マイ・カー) is a Japanese drama directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, and written by Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe, based on the short story of the same name by Creator/HarukiMurakami.[[note]]There are also elements from two other stories by Murakami - "Kino" and Scheherazade"[[/note]] It stars Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yusuke Kafuku, a popular theatre actor and director married to Oto (Reika Kirishima), a screenwriter. Their marriage, strained by the loss of a child and rumors of infidelity, comes to a shocking and unexpected end.
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''Drive My Car'' (ドライブ・マイ・カー) is a Japanese drama directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, and written by Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe, based on the short story of the same name by Creator/HarukiMurakami.[[note]]There are also elements from two other stories by Murakami - "Kino" and Scheherazade"[[/note]] "Scheherazade"[[/note]] It stars Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yusuke Kafuku, a popular theatre actor and director married to Oto (Reika Kirishima), a screenwriter. Their marriage, strained by the loss of a child and rumors of infidelity, comes to a shocking and unexpected end.
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The movie premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, where it won three prizes including Best Screenplay. It was chosen as Japan's submission for the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm Academy Award for Best International Feature Film]]--which it won--and was also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture, becoming the first Japanese film to be nominated for the latter. The movie was given a limited release in the United States beginning on November 24, 2021. The trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BPKPb_RTwI here]].
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The movie premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, where it won three prizes including Best Screenplay. It was chosen as Japan's submission for the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm [[MediaNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm Academy Award for Best International Feature Film]]--which it won--and was also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture, becoming the first Japanese film to be nominated for the latter. The movie was given a limited release in the United States beginning on November 24, 2021. The trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BPKPb_RTwI here]].
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* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: During one of their drinking sessions after work, Kafuku tells Takatsuki that he has poor control of himself, which the latter readily admits to, but Kafuku also notes while this is not good for functioning in society, it's also not necessarily a bad thing for his profession as an actor. [[spoiler: Said poor impulse control is demonstrated when Takatsuki loses his temper at a man taking his picture in public, leading him to beat him to death, and also likely played a role in his history of sexual misconduct, such as his affair with Oto and his previous inappropriate relationship with a minor.]]
* TheStoic: Both Kafuku and Watari are rather un-emotive people, rarely cracking so much as a smile. [[spoiler:This turns out to be largely a coping mechanism for both to avoid feeling both the anger and the guilt they have towards their wife and mother respectively. Once they come to terms with their pain, Kafuku is able to give a very emotional performance in a role he had avoided since his wife's death and Watari is last seen giving a genuine smile as she drives off.]]
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* TheStoic: Both Kafuku and Watari are rather un-emotive people, rarely cracking so much as a smile. [[spoiler:This turns out to be largely a coping mechanism for both to avoid feeling both the anger and the guilt they have towards their wife and mother respectively. Once they come to terms with their pain, Kafuku is able to give a very emotional performance in a role he had avoided since his wife's death and Watari is last seen giving a genuine smile as she drives off.]]
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* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: During one of their drinking sessions after work, Kafuku tells Takatsuki that he has poor control of himself, which the latter readily admits to, but Kafuku also notes while this is not good for functioning in society, it's also not necessarily a bad thing for his profession as an actor. [[spoiler: Said poor impulse control is demonstrated when Takatsuki loses his temper at a man taking his picture in public, leading him to beat him to death, and also likely played a role in his history of sexual misconduct, such as his affair with Oto and his previous inappropriate relationship with a minor.]]
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* LanguageOfLove: Takatsuki and Janice Chang end up hooking up together while rehearsing for the performance, despite sharing no common languages as he only speaks Japanese while she speaks Mandarin and English. While being driven to a daily practice session, Kafuku sees when his car passes by that they were in a fender bender with another driver (meaning they spent the night together and are now violating the rule that the actors are not to drive themselves) and is unsurprised when both show up late together. He's not happy with them.
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* SexStartsStoryStops: This may be the only example of this being an InvertedTrope: [[spoiler: while driving him home, Kafuku eventually reveals to Takatsuki (and Watari by dint of her being the driver) that after the death of their child, Oto withdrew from her job as a scriptwriter and became lethargic and unable to create new stories. It was only after they began having sex again that she could come up with new plotlines during coitus, which she would never remember upon waking in the morning so he would have to repeat the plots to her. Sex then became the only way for her to maintain her creativity. Unfortunately this also led her to start sleeping with other men.]]
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* SexStartsStoryStops: This may be the only example of this being an InvertedTrope: [[spoiler: while driving him home, Kafuku eventually reveals to Takatsuki (and Watari by dint of her being the driver) that after the death of their child, Oto withdrew from her job as a scriptwriter and became lethargic and unable to create new stories. It was only after they began having sex again that she could come up with new plotlines during coitus, which she would could never remember upon waking in the morning climaxing so he would have to repeat the plots to her. Sex then became the only way for her to maintain her creativity. Unfortunately this also led her to start sleeping with other men.]]
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* TapOnTheHead: [[spoiler: The news broadcast on the ferry states that Takatsuki punched his victim in the head and rendered him unconscious, and he passed away the next day in the hospital.]]
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* TapOnTheHead: [[spoiler: The news broadcast on the ferry states that Takatsuki repeatedly punched his victim in the head and rendered him unconscious, and he passed away the next day in the hospital.]]
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* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Takatsuki beats a man to death simply because the man took pictures of him in public and previously slept with an underaged girl. But he did feel a genuine connection to Oto's writing and later opens his heart to Kafuku about his feelings of emptiness, seeing the same qualities in Kafuku that he loved in Oto.]]
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* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Takatsuki beats a man to death simply because the man took pictures of him in public and public. The news report of his arrest also reveals he had previously slept had an illegal relationship with an underaged girl.a minor. But he did feel a genuine connection to Oto's writing and later opens his heart to Kafuku about his feelings of emptiness, seeing the same qualities in Kafuku that he loved in Oto.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Kafuku and Watari cannot turn back the clock to save their dead loved ones, but they do resolve to live the best lives they can. Kafuku finds the will to play Vanya again, but it's a role that clearly still takes an emotional toll on him. Watari gets the same red car that she drove Kafuku around in, got a treatment to reduce the scar on her cheek, and got a dog.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Kafuku and Watari cannot turn back the clock to save their dead loved ones, but they do resolve to live the best lives they can. Kafuku finds the will to play Vanya again, but it's a role that clearly still takes an emotional toll on him. And after an indeterminate time skip, we see that Watari gets has bought the same red car that she drove Kafuku around in, got gotten a treatment to reduce the scar on her cheek, and got a dog.dog that is the same breed as the one that Yoon-soo and Yoon-ah owned, and has left Hiroshima to start a new life in South Korea.]]
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* SexStartsStoryStops: This may be the only example of this being an InvertedTrope: [[spoiler: while driving him home, Kafuku eventually reveals to Takatsuki (and Watari by dint of her being the driver) that after the death of their child, Oto withdrew from her job as a scriptwriter and became lethargic and unable to create new stories. It was only after they began having sex again that she could come up with new plotlines during coitus, which she would never remember upon waking in the morning so he would have to repeat the plots to her. Sex then became the only way for her to maintain her creativity. Unfortunately this also led her to start sleeping with other men.]]
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* TapOnTheHead: [[spoiler: The news broadcast on the ferry states that Takatsuki punched his victim in the head and rendered him unconscious, and he passed away the next day in the hospital.]]
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The movie premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, where it won three prizes including Best Screenplay. It was chosen as Japan's submission for the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm Academy Award for Best International Feature Film]]--which it won--and was also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture, for which it was the first Japanese film to be nominated. The movie was given a limited release in the United States beginning on November 24, 2021. The trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BPKPb_RTwI here]].
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The movie premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, where it won three prizes including Best Screenplay. It was chosen as Japan's submission for the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm Academy Award for Best International Feature Film]]--which it won--and was also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture, for which it was becoming the first Japanese film to be nominated.nominated for the latter. The movie was given a limited release in the United States beginning on November 24, 2021. The trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BPKPb_RTwI here]].
