Drive My Car: Lost Daughter is an independently produced and directed short film that has just scooped up top prizes at a range of leading international film festivals. The dark and brooding tale of a daughter searching for her father won the hearts of judges with its powerful performances and deft storytelling.
The award-winning feature film has been accepted into more than 65 international film festivals and has been featured on the main stage at Cannes. ‘This is certainly an exciting film to watch,’ enthused The Canadian Screen Awards jury, which also crowned Drive My Car: Lost Daughter as winner in Best Cinematography, Best Short Filmmaking and Best Editing.
With a cast that includes top screen actor Gus Ward (Journey To The West) and accomplished voice overs Rhys Wakefield (Alice In Wonderland), and Gareth Owens (Hercules), it is easy to see why the short won such high acclaim from festivals over the last few years.
Do you know about the release date of Drive My Car Series:
This series will be released on 1 April 2022. Also the series has been planned to be released on Amazon Prime Video. The price is not yet revealed but with the quality that already been seen from the trailer, this series will be worth watching.
The Director for Drive my Car series is Ryan James Yezak and it will be produced by Randy Berrett and Brandon Jones as an executive producer. Also Vincent Tong from Australia is the cast in this series.
Here is the plot of Drive My Car discussed:
A mother has just lost her child in an accident and is struggling to cope with the loss. Her husband and daughter try to help her get by but she doesn’t want to. She thinks that she is cursed. One day, a guardian angel arrives at her doorstep.
He tries to help her move on with her life through the power of talking about the child’s past and coming up with a new plan for their future. All this helps but still can’t stop the pain from missing them. The mother decides that she needs to go back in time and find out what’s waiting in her daughters future.
The Name of Cast & Characters of Drive My Car:
- Hidetoshi Nishijima · Yûsuke Kafuku
- Tôko Miura · Misaki Watari
- Reika Kirishima · Oto Kafuku
- Yûsuke’s Wifeas Oto
- Perry Dizon · Roy Lucelo
What inspired you to start the Drive My Car series?
This series is inspired from a book called Alice in Wonderland, from the episode in which the White Queen tells what happened to her father. I thought that this is very similar with my situation. This story is about a girl who lost her parents when she was a baby and she grew up without parents. She also didn’t know anything about her father until she met him again when she became fourteen years old.
How did you come up with your characters?
They came out of my imagination and it’s been inspired by some people around me. They are not based on any specific character though they are inspired from actual people but they have their own thoughts and feelings, so it’s quite difficult to describe them exactly.
Who are your three most important creative influences?
I am not really influenced by any specific writers or performers. I think it’s just because my book “Alice in Wonderland” inspired me to go on writing the story of the Drive My Car series and so I came up with this story based on the book I read.
How did you find the right actors to play your characters?
The actors depend on what they could fit or suit better than other actors in the scene. My first meeting with Yûsuke was quite different from our first meeting until we found that we had similar thoughts, so we started talking more and more and finally ended up working together on this film..
Why did you choose to feature a different car in each episode?
Actually I just saw a video clip of the car, called an autogyro, which is an aircraft that has wheels instead of wings. I thought it was very cool so we decided to use the car for our film.
I think that we just used it to show the different world in each episode and also to show that they are in a different place every time and also to tell other stories. There are lots of reasons behind every story in this series but I believe the general inspiration is all coming from “Alice in Wonderland”, which tells me something incredible.
What kind of dangers come with your job, and how do you avoid them?
The main danger I have is that I am always afraid to get hurt and all I can do is try my best not to hurt myself or let anyone else hurt me. It’s not that hard actually because most of the time there is no one in front of me so it isn’t dangerous for me at all but sometimes when some things don’t go as expected we just have to face it calmly without getting nervous about things.
