Drive My Car (2021)
ドライブ・マイ・カー
Go on living.
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Drive My Car rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb7.5/10· 74K votes
Rotten Tomatoes97%
Metacritic91%
TMDb7.4/10· 1K votesWith 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.5/10 on IMDb and 91/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.
About Drive My Car
Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.
Cast of Drive My Car
Hidetoshi Nishijima
as Yūsuke Kafuku
Toko Miura
as Misaki Watari
Masaki Okada
as Kōshi Takatsuki
Reika Kirishima
as Oto Kafuku
Park Yu-rim
as Lee Yoo-na
Jin Dae-yeon
as Gong Yoon-su
Sonia Yuan
as Janice Chang
Ahn Hwi-tae
as Ryu Jong-ui
Perry Dizon
as Roy Rossello
Satoko Abe
as Yuzuhara
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Hiroko Matsuda
as Yumi Etô
Toshiaki Inomata
as Takashi Kimura
Drive My Car facts
- Original title
- ドライブ・マイ・カー
- Budget
- $1.3M
- Box office
- $15.4M
Ranked by the iRankMovies editorial teamUpdated August 2026MethodologyData sources
Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Ryusuke Hamaguchi explores grief through artistic audition process
- •Bilingual narrative adds sophisticated cultural complexity throughout
- •Driver character study deepens through patient character development
What the audience disliked
- •Extended runtime tests attention spans in slower passages
- •Artistic sex sequences may alienate mainstream audience expectations
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