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Theatrical poster for Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car (2021), showing the red Saab.

Drive My Car and the Business of Letting Someone Else Take the Wheel

Ryusuke Hamaguchi's three-hour adaptation is usually described as a film about grief. It is closer to a film about who is permitted to drive, and what a man gives up when he finally hands over the keys.

Lena Ashworth·10 Oct·5 min

A laptop glowing in a dim Tokyo apartment, its screen casting cold blue light across an unmade bed.

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Cloud and Kurosawa's Quiet Fury at the Platform Economy

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2024 thriller about a Tokyo reseller whose customers track him to a mountain cabin is the closest his cinema has come to an argument about the economy we are actually living inside.

Lena Ashworth·12 May·8 min