Hidetoshi Nishijima and Jin Daeyeon in a scene from Drive My Car, one of several celebrated movie adaptations of Japanese author Haruki Murakami’s works.Arguably Japan’s most internationally celebrated living author, 73-year-old Haruki Murakami has penned more than a dozen novels and countless short stories, which have become runaway bestsellers both at home and around the world.
The first part in the author’s Trilogy of the Rat, the story is narrated by an unnamed man , who reminisces about the summer of 1970, when he returned home to Kobe and is reunited with his friend, Rat . The titular hero is a typical Murakami protagonist: middle-aged, successful, yet lives alone and pines for romance.
Despite these changes, the film remains a heart-wrenching story of love and loss, in which the elements themselves play a crucial role in dramatising the romantic struggle of young Toru as he is forced to choose between his girlfriend whose mental health is in free fall, and his new-found yearnings for the beautiful Midori .
The story’s married protagonist is reimagined as Yoo Ah-in’s young slacker Jong-su, who reconnects with old school friend Hae-mi shortly before she leaves for a trip to Africa, only to return with a new boyfriend, the rich and worldly Ben .
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