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Drive My Car

2021 · directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi · 179 min
24,735 feet · Prominence
578th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw42

Lifetime worldwide gross $15m, re-releases included; about $19m in 2026 money.

Rank6,095 of 11,051In 202183 of 226

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

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics94 baseAwards72 signal → +2 lift

Oscars1 won International Feature Film3 nominated Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay
Golden Globes1 won Non-English Language Film
BAFTAs2 nominated Directing, Screenplay
How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy58

Judged directly: Criterion, MC91; canon over 6th pct traffic.

Verdict58 of 100IMDb7.5 from 74kWikipedia19k views a monthAge5 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 653 of 4,039 films judged

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 58averages 65, placing it at24,735 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.

Whose apex this is

▲ Hidetoshi Nishijima▲ Masaki Okada▲ Reika Kirishima▲ Toko Miura

In these careers — elevation for this film

Hidetoshi Nishijima19,103 ftToko Miura18,294 ftMasaki Okada18,222 ftReika Kirishima17,952 ft