With Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 'Drive My Car' a frontrunner for best international feature film, Japan could win its second Academy Award in that category, formerly known as best foreign-language film.
came from its star, Masahiro Motoki, who on a trip to India in the 1990s was struck by a funeral ceremony on the Ganges River. The film ultimately took a decade to make, partly because the taboo subject matter turned off potential producers.
In the Oscar press room immediately following the win, a shell-shocked Motoki — who studied cello and funeral rites for the role — told reporters: “I walked the red carpet as a hanger-on who just observes the ceremony. Now I regret that I did not walk with more confidence.” This story first appeared in a January stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine,
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