Driving Miss Daisy

[Machine Translation] [Kadokawa Selected Academy Award Winning Masterpieces Selection] Unchanging friendship. Unchanging friendships, feelings to cherish! A masterpiece of all masterpieces, nominated for 9 Academy Awards and winning in 4 categories (Best Picture, Best Actress, Adapted Screenplay, and Make-up)! Jessica Dundee won the Academy Award for Best Actress at the age of 80. --1948 Daisy, a Jewish former teacher in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, is on her way to the store one day when she drives her car into the hedge of her neighbor's house. Her son Booley hires Hawk, a first-generation black chauffeur, to drive her. However, Daisy, who had stubbornly refused to accept the driver Booley had hired, relented and let Hawk drive her. 1953 Christmas, Daisy gave Hawk, who could not read or write, a reference book. On her way to visit her brother in Alabama to celebrate his birthday, Daisy was made painfully aware of the prejudice against blacks that Hawk had suffered by a police officer. One day, Daisy is stricken with dementia. Daisy's dementia progresses and she is institutionalized...

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[角川厳選アカデミー受賞名作セレクション] 変わらぬ友情。 大切にしたい想い! アカデミー賞9部門ノミネート、4部門(作品、主演女優、脚色、メイクアップ)に輝く名作中の名作! 主演のジェシカ・ダンディは、アカデミー主演女優賞最高年齢(80歳)での受賞。――1948年アメリカ、ジョージア州アトランタに住む、ユダヤ系元教師のデイジーは、ある日、買い物に出かける途中、隣の家の垣根に車を突っ込んでしまう。息子のブーリーは、彼女のために初老の黒人運転手ホークを雇った。しかし、ブーリーが雇い入れた運転手を頑なに受け付けなかったデイジーは、ホークに根負けして、彼に運転を任せることにした。1953年クリスマス、デイジーは読み書きのできないホークに参考書をプレゼントした。デイジーは、誕生日を祝うためアラバマにいる兄弟のもとを訪れる途中、警察官からホークが受けた黒人に対する偏見を痛感させられる。ある日、デイジーは認知症に罹患する。認知症の進んだデイジーは、施設に入れられ・・・。