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EXCLUSIVE: Kôji Fukada makes his Cannes Competition debut this period pinch Nagi Notes and Deadline tin uncover a first clip.
Takako Matsu stars arsenic Yoriko, an creator surviving successful agrarian Nagi, nursing nan wounds of a grounded emotion matter she cannot carnivore to mourn.
Friend and erstwhile sister-in-law Yuri (Shizuka Ishibashi) travels from Tokyo to visit. Like Yoriko, nan precocious separated designer is astatine a crossroads successful her life. Yuri’s little flight from nan metropolis settles into a quiet confrontation of nonaccomplishment and probing for nan 2 women successful bucolic Nagi.
Fukada says “the first spark” for nan movie was nan Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art (Nagi MOCA) successful Japan‘s confederate Okayama Prefecture which is known for its agrarian landscapes and lifestyles.
“I was first drawn to nan thought of filming a communicative wherever divers group intersect wrong that architecture designed by Arata Isozaki, a building that stands retired successful nan serene scenery for illustration a abrupt estrangement effect (Verfremdungseffekt),” he explains.
“Gradually, my liking expanded ‘outside’ nan depository walls. As I engaged pinch nan section organization complete 8 years of section research, I encountered various motifs: nan opposition betwixt municipality and agrarian life, nan hostility betwixt creation and regular existence, and nan deep-seated structures of patriarchy and gender.”
“Ultimately, however, I recovered myself returning to a taxable cardinal to my work: nan problem of quality solitude. While cinema often demands unsocial aliases expansive conflicts, I judge nan specified acts of being calved and dying are, successful themselves, profound conflicts and mysteries. Truly, location is nary greater logic to make a movie than to simply move nan camera toward those basal truths.”
Fukada was first successful Cannes Official Selection successful 2016 pinch Harmonium which played successful Un Certain Regard and won nan strand’s Jury Prize.
His 2020 movie The Real Thing was a recipient of nan festival’s Covid-19 explanation which was introduced aft it was cancelled owed to nan pandemic, while he first returned physically to nan show successful 2025 pinch Love connected Trial which played successful Cannes Premiere.
Mk2 films handles income connected caller movie Nagi Notes.
