Nagi Noda
2019 / 03 / 13
Nagi Noda was a Japanese pop-culture/fashion artist and short film director. She died in 2008 at age 34 due to complications in surgery after being injured in a traffic accident a year earlier.
Noda's works remind us how one culture's quirky and cute can be another culture's surreal and unsettling.
Nagi Noda was a Japanese pop-culture/fashion artist and short film director. She died in 2008 at age 34 due to complications in surgery after being injured in a traffic accident a year earlier.
Noda's works remind us how one culture's quirky and cute can be another culture's surreal and unsettling.
"I Get Married Smoothly", 2000
A still from an advertisement for La Foret Harajuku, a Tokyo department store/museum which Noda frequently worked with.
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A photo of Nagi Noda."Mariko Takahashi's Fitness Video for Being Appraised as an 'Ex-fat Girl'", 2004
A short film created by Nagi Noda for a set of ten short films commissioned by Panasonic for the 2004 Summer Olympics. It stars 20-year-old Mariko Takahashi, a California born Japanese model. It is a parody of Susan Powter's 1990s fitness videos.
