Cast : Takako Matsu, Kenichi Matsuyama, Shizuka Ishibashi
drama / Japan / Color / status : in post-production / Japanese / long feature-film / International collections
From Cannes prize-winner Koji Fukada, NAGI NOTES explores the friendship between two women bound by art, memory and family in an evolving Japan. Fukada’s masterful observations of subtle and precise gestures craft an incisive portrait of contemporary society.
Yoriko, an artist living in rural Nagi, is haunted by a former love affair she cannot bear to mourn. When Yuri, a recently separated architect, travels from Tokyo to visit her friend and former sister-in-law, both women find themselves at a crossroad, each searching for ways to let go of the past and define their identities. Yuri’s brief escape from the city settles into a quiet confrontation of loss and probing for the two women in bucolic Nagi.