Two years after his wife’s sudden death, theatre director Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to stage Uncle Vanya. Working with a young chauffeur and an actor tied to his past, he begins to face the grief, secrets and emotional wounds he has long carried. Adapted from Haruki Murakami, DRIVE MY CAR is a quietly mesmerising story of art, love, loss and healing.

Rialto Recommends DRIVE MY CAR is one of the great modern films about grief, performance and the quiet work of living after loss. Ryusuke Hamaguchi turns a simple journey into something profound: a meditation on love, silence, art and the conversations we avoid until they become impossible to ignore. Patient, elegant and deeply moving, this is cinema that stays with you long after the engine stops.