Oscars 2022: from Drive My Car to A Hero, Asia’s 10 hottest contenders for best international feature film at the Academy Awards

• One of the hot favourites to bag the award is Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car, a story of a struggling theatre director dealing with the death of his wife
• Cliff Walkers, directed by China’s Zhang Yimou, may see a nod in this category in 2022, while Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero could earn the director his third Oscar