Nagi Notes
Drama Japanese
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.
| Cast: | Takako Matsu, Shizuka Ishibashi, Kenichi Matsuyama, Kawaguchi Waku, Kiyora Fujiwara, Sawako Fujima, Ron Mizuma, Shin Seo-gye, |
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| Director: | Koji Fukada |
| Writer: | Koji Fukada |
| Editor: | Sylvie Lager |
| Camera: | Hidetoshi Shinomiya |
All Guild Reviews of "Nagi Notes"
A Ruminative Marvel
It is sometimes not important to know exactly what will happen tomorrow - the definitive is not what Nagi Notes seeks in Nagi Notes - but just the comfort that there will be another day is enough.
There’s been a recent upsurge of the interest in Japan, as both location and metaphor, in Indian cinema. The romantic leads in both Toh Ti Ani Fuji ( Marathi) and Ek Din (Hindi), wander around Japanese hills and vales, looking for themselves. The four central characters in Koji Fukada’s latest Nagi Notes (his first in Cannes Competition) are also searching, and their quest turns into a ruminative marvel, which sneaks into your heart without fanfare. Two women, co-sisters-in-law in spirit even when the man in question has vanished from their lives, reunite for a week in Nagi, the kind of small town where everyone knows everyone else, public service announcements on radio talking about mundane civic affairs (as well as the war in faraway Ukraine) become the chief source of information, and where the rhythms of nature reflect the inner turmoil of the characters.
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