Drive My Car (2021)
Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
A Tokyo stage actor and director, still grieving his wife, takes a theatre residency in Hiroshima, where a young woman is hired to drive his old red Saab; a long drive north to her ruined childhood home in Hokkaido follows.
- Travel shown
- On foot, bike, skis or swimming
- Not shown on screen
- Fictional place
- 1Kafuku home≈ 00:00:00Tokyo, JapanStated on screen
Yūsuke rehearses lines in his Saab to his wife Oto's tapes, and their marriage unravels until her sudden death.
- 2Hiroshima, Japan≈ 00:41:00Stated on screen
Two years later he directs a multilingual Uncle Vanya at a Hiroshima festival, driven daily by Misaki between the theatre and his lodging an hour away.
- 3Misaki's ruined childhood home≈ 02:25:00Kamijūnitaki, Hokkaido (fictional)Stated on screenFictional
- 4South Korea≈ 02:50:00Inferred
The journey in numbers
- Distance travelled
- 3,645 km
- Places
- 4
- Countries
- 2
- Stops
- 4
- Car: 2,115 km
- Not shown: 1,531 km
Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.
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