SUBSCRIBE to this channel for exclusive videos from AFI: http://bit.ly/SubscribeAFI AFI FEST Programmer Malin Kahn leads a conversation with Academy Award-winning director of DRIVE MY CAR (2021), Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Expanding on the eponymous Haruki Murakami short story, this epic examination of loss from Japanese auteur Ryusuke Hamaguchi (ASAKO I & II), which won Best Screenplay at Cannes, follows well-known stage actor Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) who is invited to direct a multi-lingual version of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” in Hiroshima. Accustomed to running lines behind the wheel with a tape recorded by his late wife, Yusuke is dismayed to learn that the production requires he accept a quiet young woman, Misaki, as his driver. When her driving abilities prove more than adequate, his concerns are shifted to revelations about his wife, a possible affair uncovered and an inner life he will never fully know. With a delicate emotionality, Hamaguchi explores what is left behind when a love is lost and a city is decimated. #movies #afi #film #americanfilminstitute FOLLOW AFI: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanFilmInstitute https://twitter.com/AmericanFilm https://instagram.com/AmericanFilmInstitute http://www.afi.com BECOME AN AFI MEMBER: https://www.afi.com/support/?Op=join SHOP AFI: https://shop.afi.com/ SIGN UP for the AFI Newsletter: https://www.afi.com/sign-up/?method=signups