First look at Nicolas Winding Refn’s DRIVE & Takashi Miike's HARA-KIRI: DEATH OF A SAMURAI

Earlier we shared the full list of films for the Cannes Film Festival. Now we have your first look at two films that are festival bound, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive and Takashi Miike's Hara-Kari: Death of a Samurai.

Drive is based on the novel by James Sallis and stars Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan. The film follows a stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver-for-hire and gets mixed up with a seedy croud. The supporting cast includes, Ron Perlman, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Christina Hendricks and Oscar Issac. The film sounds really cool and has a great cast. It will arrive in theaters on September 16th.

Here is the synopsis:

DRIVE is the highly anticipated independent feature with Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn (“Bronson,” “Valhalla Rising”) in the driver’s seat. Filmed in and around Los Angeles, the crime drama stars Academy Award® Nominees Ryan Gosling (“Half Nelson,” “The Notebook”) and Carey Mulligan (“An Education,” “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps”). Academy Award® Nominee Hossein Amini (“Wings Of The Dove”) adapted the script from the James Sallis’ novel of the same name.

Adding to the compelling mix of talent are three-time Emmy® Award Winner Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”), Golden Globe® Winner Ron Perlman (“Sons Of Anarchy”), Emmy® Nominee Christina Hendricks (“Mad Men”), Oscar Isaac (“Body Of Lies,” “Robin Hood”) and Academy Award® Nominee Albert Brooks (“Taxi Driver”, “Broadcast News”).

“Drive” is the story of a Hollywood stunt driver by day (Ryan Gosling), a loner by nature, who moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver-for-hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA’s most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbor, Irene (Carey Mulligan). When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best—Drive!

Thanks to RopeOfSilicon, we also have some stills from Takashi Miike's 17th century set film, Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai. The film "centers on (Ebizo Ichikawa), an honorable, poverty-stricken samurai requesting to commit hara-kiri in the courtyard of feudal lord Kageyu’s estate. Trying to dismiss Hanshiro’s wish to save face, Kageyu (Koji Yakusho) recounts the tragic story of a similar plea years ago from young ronin Motome (Eita). But the arrogant lord is unaware of vengeful Hanshiro’s bond to Motome.” 

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 Drive 

Hara-Kari: Death of a Samurai

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