At first, Kafuku does not want anyone else to drive his car, but gradually, he and Watari begin to develop a bond.įor readers who have not seen the film, I will avoid going into the details of the film, but as many have already pointed out, the film is a story of rebirth. Watari is an unsociable woman with a scar on her cheek, but she is a good driver. Kafuku is asked to direct a stage production in Hiroshima and is assigned a personal driver, Misato Watari (played by Toko Miura), for the duration of the production. Yusuke Kafuku (played by Hidetoshi Nishijima), a director and actor, witnesses his wife (played by Reika Kirishima) having an affair, but she dies of a sudden illness before he has the chance to confront her about it. While Haruki Murakami poses the question of death and rebirth in the form of a short story, the film adaptation by director Ryusuke Hamaguchi answers the question by illustrating rebirth in a tangible and specific way. So, what kind of interplay arises as a result of director Ryusuke Hamaguchi's adaptation of Haruki Murakami's short story 'Drive My Car' to film? To lead with a conclusion, the short story and the film adaptation have a question and answer relationship. Conducting research on such a topic is not simply a matter of comparing the two versions. While these points are worth noting, it is only natural that works made in different genres feature different content in some parts, despite sharing the same title.

In their work, they often discuss how a line in the novel was changed in the movie version or how a scene in the manga was changed in the anime version. Students enrolled in my seminars (a series of specialized seminars for juniors and seniors) at the Faculty of Letters often choose research on movies based on novels or anime based on manga as the topics of their theses.

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