{"id":14836,"date":"2022-02-28T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14836"},"modified":"2022-02-25T15:58:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:58:48","slug":"drive-my-car-2021-ryusuke-hamaguchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14836","title":{"rendered":"Drive My Car (2021, Ry\u00fbsuke Hamaguchi)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A total acting study, enamored with its actors, and about acting. These are really fun to watch – I preferred Drive<\/em> over Wheel<\/a><\/em>, even though the former is too long.<\/p>\n

My book report to Richard on the Murakami story: Published in 2014, I still don’t know if the lead character’s name Kafuku is a reference to Kafka (or Murakami’s 2002 novel Kafka on the Shore<\/em>). The Chekhov play is in the original (but much LESS Chekhov). Driver Misaki’s mom died while driving drunk, not in a landslide, and Misaki’s character\/personality isn’t really explored beyond her driving ability. Kafuku is telling the driver stories about the young actor Takatsuki who slept with his wife – this happened years earlier, so the driver never sees the actor in person – but some of the dialogue is the same. The biggest change: the Saab 900 is yellow in the book.<\/p>\n

Our man Kafuku is Hidetoshi Nishijima, lead cop in Creepy<\/a><\/em>… driver Toko Miura a minor player in Lesson of Evil<\/a><\/em>… deadwife Oto is Reika Kirishima of Godzilla Final Wars<\/em>, and both she and her husband have been in Murakami adaptations before. Actor Takatsuki is Masaki Okada – looked familiar but nope, in a recent Miike sequel and a Japanese remake of Cube<\/em>. One guy in the play’s cast must be Filipino – a Lav Diaz regular, I’ve seen him in Norte<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A total acting study, enamored with its actors, and about acting. These are really fun to watch – I preferred Drive over Wheel, even though the former is too long. My book report to Richard on the Murakami story: Published in 2014, I still don’t know if the lead character’s name Kafuku is a reference […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,296,423,36,204,2615,1308],"class_list":["post-14836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-book-adaptation","tag-haruki-murakami","tag-japan","tag-performance","tag-ryusuke-hamaguchi","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14866,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14836\/revisions\/14866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}