Co-written and directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car, had its world premiere in competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, where it won Best Screenplay. It has since been selected as Japan’s official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards®, and has been nominated for four Academy Awards® (Best Picture, Director, International Feature Film and Adapted Screenplay) and three BAFTA Film Awards (Director, Film Not in English Language and Adapted Screenplay).

Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story, Drive My Car is a haunting road movie traveling a path of love, loss, acceptance, and peace. Two years after his wife’s unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a renowned stage actor and director, receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There, he meets Misaki Watari (Toko Miura), a taciturn young woman assigned by the festival to chauffeur him in his beloved red Saab 900. As the production’s premiere approaches, tensions mount amongst the casmontht and crew, not least between Yusuke and

Koji Takatsuki, a handsome TV star who shares an unwelcome connection to Yusuke’s late wife. Forced to confront painful truths raised from his past, Yusuke begins – with the help of his driver – to face the haunting mysteries his wife left behind.

Seligman’s Shiva Baby; MUBI’s co[1] productions include Mia Hansen-Løve’s One Fine Morning, Ekwa Msangi’s Sundance prize-winner Farewell Amor, Danielle Lessovitz’s Port Authority, and Rachel Lang’s Our Men.

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Renowned as one of the greatest filmmakers of our time, Wong Kar Wai spent five years restoring the collection, which covers some of his most celebrated work across the past several decades, including: 2046 (2004), Chungking Express (1994), Fallen Angels (1995), Happy Together (1997), and In the Mood for Love (2000). The restoration was led by L’Immagine Ritrovata and completed in Bologna and Hong Kong under the supervision of Wong Kar Wai, and in collaboration with Criterion. The season also includes Ashes of Time Redux (2008) and The Hand (2004).

The release of the new collection comes twenty years after the premiere of the multi award-winning In the Mood for Love, a film that received widespread acclaim worldwide following its debut at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival and saw Tony Leung Chiu-wai become the first Hong Kong actor to be awarded the Best Actor Prize, and Christopher Doyle, Mark Lee Ping-bing and William Chang Suk Ping receive the Grand Prize of the Superior Technical Commission.

The full collection of seven films will be exclusively available to stream on MUBI in India. The full line-up and dates are as follows.

In the Mood for Love (2000) – Set during the 1960s in Hong Kong, the film stars Tony Leung Chiu-wai (Infernal Affairs, The Grandmaster) and Maggie Cheung Man Yuk (Days of Being Wild, Hero) in career-defining roles as new neighbors Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan. While at first their encounters are reserved and polite, they soon realise that their respective absent spouses are having an affair with one another.

Chungking Express (1994) — December 19 – One of the definitive works of 1990s cinema, Chungking Express is a snapshot of four interlocking lives briefly connecting under the artificial lights and maze-like passages of Chungking Mansions, a commercial complex in Hong Kong. Starring Brigitte Lin (Ashes of Time), Tony Leung Chiu-wai (In the Mood for Love) and singer turned actress Faye Wong (2046), this sweet yet melancholy look at loneliness, heartache and the pursuit of connection in an increasingly alienating world solidified Wong Kar Wai’s international auteur status.

Fallen Angels (1995) — December 26 – Originally conceived as part of Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express, Fallen Angels is its nocturnal relative, a dark romantic-thriller set against the nighttime cityscape of Hong Kong. The film charts the interconnecting fates of several mysterious characters in the dazzling neon metropolis, including a detached hitman hoping to leave his shady line of work behind, his elusive assistant who is secretly in love with him and a mute entrepreneur with an unusual business scheme.

Happy Together (1997) — January 2 – Premiering at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, Happy Together won Wong Kar Wai the festival’s Best Director distinction, awarded for the first time in history to a Hong Kong recipient. A queer love story set in Argentina, it stars Hong Kong acting royalty Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Leslie Cheung as an on-and-off again couple whose volatile and passionate relationship begins to spiral out of control. This heartbreaking depiction of love, obsession and isolation is one of Wong Kar Wai’s most devastating works.

2046 (2004) — January 9 – 2046, Wong Kar Wai’s bewitching and enigmatic sequel to his 2000 masterpiece In the Mood for Love, premiered in competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai as a writer caught between the past, present and future, as well as an all-star cast including Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li and Faye Wong, 2046 is a romantic and melancholy exploration of the relationship between love, time and memory shot with the Hong Kong auteur’s characteristically lush visuals.

The Hand (2004) — January 16 – The Hand is an extended version of Wong Kar Wai’s contribution to Eros, a three-part film anthology also including works by Michelangelo Antonioni and Steven Soderbergh. Set during the 1960s in Hong Kong, the film stars Chang Chen (Happy Together) as a tailor’s assistant who is sent to take the measurements of a famous courtesan played by Gong Li (Memoirs of a Geisha). An intimate first encounter leads to him lovingly making her beautiful garments over many years as he grows in success and she increasingly falls on hard times.

Ashes of Time Redux (2008) — January 23 – Wong Kar Wai’s only wuxia, or martial arts film, Ashes of Time Redux is a revised version of his 1994 epic of the same name loosely based on Louis Cha’s novel The Eagle-Shooting Heroes. Told with the director’s characteristic preference for mood over classical narrative, it features numerous Hong Kong superstars including Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin and Tony Leung Chiu-wai in a romantic story of heartbreak and revenge in the Jianghu desert.

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