Reasons why "Drive My Car" got a global reputation -Sophisticated, delicacy and "hope" to live now

Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "Drive My Car" (2021) has gained a great global evaluation?Started with the four crowns of the Cannes International Film Festival, including the first Japanese film script award, the Golden Globe Awards and the US Critics Federation of Critics Federation continued, and on February 8, it was finally nominated for the U.S. Academy Awards.If you won the work award, it will be the first Japanese movie.There is nothing surprising.

Now, what is the reason for the progress again?In the first place, I would like to look back on what the world of Hamaguchi's work is like.

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The waste of imitating "Rio Bravo"

The reason why Hamaguchi is acclaimed by movie fans, critics, and colleagues in the world is that he will be boldly incorporated into his creation while respecting various accumulation in the history of film expression.。

Before entering the shooting site, Hamaguchi looks back on Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo (1959).It is a masterpiece live play that has been eliminated all waste and all scenes are delicately made.Of course, "Drive My Car" is impressive.However, for example, Hamaguchi does not let the main character "Kafuku Yusuke" played by Hidetoshi Nishijima and his driver "Watari Misaki", dressed as Miura Miura.However, Misaki catches the writer thrown by Yusuke firmly and silently lites a cigarette.But a lot of things are transmitted.Make the lean and sophistication in Hawks's classic live plays.

If this is such a close production, you will learn from the production of past masters, and use it effectively in your own film production.Hawks is just an example.Speaking of Japan, Hamaguchi has learned a lot from Yasujiro Ozuchi, Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Yasuzo Masumura, Shinji Somura, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who was also a teacher at Tokyo University of the Arts.。There must have been something to the world's movie fans.Hamaguchi is a very bold expressionist in recent years, facing the history of the movie expression in his own way, chewing, and trying to take the step ahead.

"What is a good performance?"

Hamaguchi's movie has both entertainment and good ventilation.The same is true for "accidental imagination" (2021), but it is full of lightness and pop sensation.If you say that you have studied the history of film expression, you may expect a teachingist boring, or an autism that can only be understood by a mania, but in fact Hamaguchi movies are the opposite.It is open to everyone.why.

The big point is that the question "what is a good acting is what is a good performance" is pushed out to the front, and it is a pillar that does not move your movie.Here is his biggest uniqueness.We are watching people who are acting every day in movies and television.It's sometimes impressive, but sometimes intentional.So what is a good performance?Is it possible that the irritability of human beings and the complicated emotions that are hard to speak are expressed through acting?How can I do it?Hamaguchi's movie leads us to such an essential question.That makes the universal charm of the work.

I can't deceive the question of whether it's a good performance.If you cheat, the audience will notice.No matter how much the theory is armed, there is no way if the camera has been recorded.Because it is a trial and error that has been continued in such severe places, everyone feels thrilling.

How to bring out true emotions

It is said that Hamaguchi wanted to be a film director due to the encounter with one work.That's John Cassavetes's Hazbans (Husbands / 1970).It is a minor work that has not been released in Japan and has not been softened.Cassavetes criticizes that Hollywood's mainstream films will be a boring presence on a flat plate in a fluttering of human beings that should be complicated, and gathered with friends who are willing to actors on holidays and nights.We made a completely new movie in our style.Many spectators were confused by too much novelty and were not blessed with commercial success, but have some enthusiastic fans.

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With Cassavetes, Hamaguchi has been tasked with how to draw truth from the actors standing in front of the camera since the very early days of his career, and has been persistently exploring the method for that."Passion" (2008), "intimacy" (12 years), and "Happy Hour" (15 years) are the results.Happy Hour took about two years to produce after a long -term workshop based in Kobe, a long -term workshop by participants without acting experience.The screening time is 5 hours and 14 minutes.Hamaguchi states that this was created as a female version of Hazbuns (Happy Hour "was the first temporary title" BRIDES "(Brizzen =" Bride ").

"Drive My Car" also asks what is acting and how the camera can be delicately recorded the complex emotions of each human being.What happens there is certainly very dense and far from the flat plate.On the other hand, the attitude to share this difficult question with the audience is extremely fair.Don't be afraid or mystery.The so -called "audience -friendly" attitude, which trusts the audience and encourages them to think together, is also worth noting.

In this work, the actor Hidetoshi Nishijima, who plays the director, Yusuke Ike, shows the process of seeking what acting is.It can be said that Hamaguchi itself has tried in Hamaguchi in "Happy Hour".Boldly, as a result, Hamaguchi shares what they are asking and exploring them all at once.

"Diversity" and "How to spend time"

Another reason for "Drive My Car" has a highly evaluated international reputation is the time when the "diversity" is more urgent.The problem is what movies can do for excretion and extrinsicism that rampage around the world.In the play of Drive My Car, actors with various native languages gather, and each stage is created using different languages.Some performers use sign language.It is hard to imagine that this play in the play, which is trying to draw power from "diversity", is good in the eyes of many reviewers.

映画の中で上演される多言語劇『ワーニャ叔父さん』（左）とその舞台のキャスト2人。左から台湾出身のジャニス（ソニア・ユアン）と、手話の演者で韓国出身のユナ（パク・ユリム）　(C) 2021 "Drive My Car" Production Committee

However, I would like to emphasize that this work is a work that is called "diversity", not just because it presents the content "multilingual drama".In order to establish a "multilingual drama", it was necessary to train to hear the diverse voice of the body before it.It means that the production and acting method itself at a deep level.In fact, in order to realize "drive my car", which includes this play, we will cooperate with producers and assistant coaches, and to take the production system, especially the time, from the book (sometimes Japanese films (sometimes Japanese films).Hamaguchi said it was necessary to review it while resisting the production custom.

As a result, it is indicated that the method of making a movie itself (especially the way of collaboration with actors) can be diverse, beyond the fact that "diversity" as one theme of the story is talked about.It was done.The fact that "drive My car" calls "diversity" is in a very deep sense.Perhaps this is the most amazing that film officials around the world are the most amazing.Acting and directing, itself can be diverse.You can change the production process and create a different movie.

The theme of "collapse" and "recovery"

Finally, why did a writer named Hamaguchi come out of Japan today? I would like to mention the part related to that background. Hamaguchi was born in 1978. By the time he graduated from college and entered society, the recession had already become chronic. In 1995, the Great Hanshin -Awaji Earthquake, and in 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake and two earthquakes. It can be said that it is a generation that has witnessed the process of collapsing everyday scaffolds that have always existed. It is also important that Hamaguchi took three films in Tohoku after the earthquake, "Namino Oto" (2012), "Naminokoe" (13), and "Utu -Hito" (13 years). be. Because he makes the theme of collapse and recovery there. In the process of recovering from the collapse of the everyday world, to reconsider his way of life from his feet and explore another possibility. Hamaguchi has shown such a modern "hope" in his work. "Drive My Car" is the current point.

As Hamaguchi emphasizes many times, this work has many universal appeal in the story of "healing" drawn by Haruki Murakami in the original novel.However, on the horizon after the earthquake, I saw an unusual completion as a video work because Hamaguchi himself resonated with the theme he had been asking for a long time.The question of how we live and what we want after something is over.In addition, this question must be more urgent in the breasts of each audience in the world due to the current difficult situation, which is the current difficult situation due to the continued loss of everyday life due to the catastrophe.

"Drive My Car" is not only an excellent movie expression, but will be remembered in the future by expressing the reality of the same era of living.

バナー：主演の西島秀俊（左）と三浦透子　(C) 2021 "Drive My Car" Production Committee