Drive My Car

2021 · directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi · 179 min

23,239 feet · Prominence

1,153rd of 15,261 films scored

Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw42

$15m worldwide in 2021 — $19m in today's money.

As released$15mIn 2026 money$19mRank5,251 of 8,589In 202169 of 156

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise96

Critics 94, awards 66. Half each, so Praise lands at 96.

Critics94 → 47Awards66 → 33

Oscars1 won International Feature Film3 nominated Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay

Golden Globes1 won Non-English Language Film

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy38

Judged directly: Recent international canon entry, legacy forming.

Verdict38 of 100IMDb7.5 from 74kWikipedia19k views a monthAge5 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score

Scored beside it · 1,364 of 3,430 films judged

38The Living Daylights (1987)

38Aladdin (2019)

38Split (2017)

38Panic Room (2002)

38Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

38The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

38Drive My Car (2021)

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 42 praise 96 legacy 38averages 59, which places it at23,239 ft

How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

No scored career runs through this film yet. The people-side engine currently covers 108careers, and this film’s cast sits outside them. Top billing: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura, Masaki Okada, Reika Kirishima.