EXCLUSIVE: Kôji Fukada makes his Cannes Competition debut this month with Nagi Notes and Deadline can reveal a first clip. Takako Matsu stars as Yoriko, an artist living in rural Nagi, nursing the wounds of a failed love affair she cannot bear to mourn. Friend and former sister-in-law Yuri (Shizuka Ishibashi) travels from Tokyo to visit. Like Yoriko, the recently separated architect is at a crossroads in her life. Yuri’s brief escape from the city settles into a quiet confrontation of loss and probing for the two women in bucolic Nagi.  Fukada says “the initial spark” for the film was the Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art (Nagi MOCA) in Japan ‘s southern Okayama Prefecture which is known for its rural landscapes and lifestyles. Watch on Deadline “I was first drawn to the idea of filming a story where diverse people intersect within that architecture designed by Arata Isozaki, a structure that stands out in the peaceful landscape like a sudden estrangement effect (Verfremdungseffekt),” he explains.…