Nagi Notes Review: Koji Fukada's Quietly Spectacular Farm Drama Explores Family and Belonging
By
David Ehrlich
The bagel they save for the regulars. Don't skim, savour.
Summary
A review of Koji Fukada's film "Nagi Notes," which follows divorced architect Yuri as she arrives in a rural farm town and forms a connection with her ex-husband's sister. The review praises Fukada's characteristically probing yet uncharacteristically sweet direction, highlighting the film as a nuanced portrait of two women searching for a new sense of family and belonging in a close-knit rural community.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledA rural farm town some 630 kilometers west of Tokyo, Nagi is the kind of place where everybody knows each other.
That makes it a wonderfully fertile setting for a film by rising Japanese auteur Koji Fukada, whose characters often struggle to know themselves.
Fukada's characteristically probing (if uncharacteristically sweet) 'Nagi Notes'
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