Shogo KUSANO 草野翔吾
What She Likes...
彼女が好きなものは
Nippon Cinema ª
Closeted teenager Jun seizes the opportunity to enter an alibi relationship when his schoolmate Sae confesses her love to him. But soon his fake reality is about to fall apart. Shogo KUSANO’s sensitive coming-of-age drama is based on a popular novel celebrated in Japan for its authentic portrayal of the situation of queer teenagers.
彼女が好きなものは
Kanojo ga sukina mono wa
Japan 2021
121 minutes
Director
Shogo KUSANO
Script
Shogo KUSANO based on a novel by Naoto ASAHARA
Cinematography
Yuta TSUKINAGA
Music
Gary ASHIYA
World sales
ColorBird
Cast
Fuju KAMIO, Anna YAMADA, Oshiro MAEDA, Ryota MIURA, Akana IKEDA
About Shogo KUSANO
草野翔吾
Shogo Kusano was born in Gunma Prefecture in 1984. While studying Sociology at Waseda University, he made his first feature film, MOGERA WOGURA (2009). After the success of his second, independently produced film EMPTY (2012), he made the manga adaptation BITTERSWEET (2016). In addition to his fictional films, many of which are coming-of-age stories, he also regularly produces music videos and television dramas.