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Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Drive My Car’ Rides Off With International Feature Oscar; Japan’s Second-Ever Competitive Win In Category

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Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car scooped the International Feature Film Oscar tonight, becoming the second movie from Japan to take a competitive prize in the category formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film (it’s the fifth for Japan if we count honorary awards given out in the 1950s).

From the Dolby stage, and speaking in English rather than through a translator as he has for much of awards season, Hamaguchi thanked “all the members of the Academy for having us here” as well as his U.S.

distributors “for bringing Drive My Car to the United States.” He was nearly played off before interrupting the music himself and saying, “Just a moment,” adding thanks to all of his actors present and those who couldn’t make it to LA, “especially Toko Miura, who drove the Saab 900 beautifully in the film.” Hamaguchi looked like he had more to say, but the skedaddle music swelled and off he went.Hamaguchi co-wrote and directed Drive My Car, based on a short story by Haruki Murakami.

The drama made history on Oscar nominations day, becoming the first Japanese film ever to score an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.

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