Synopsis
What She Likes… is based on a webnovel of the same title by Asahara Naoto and was already adapted into a TV drama in 2019, which proved popular. This film version was made by Kusano Shôgo, director of Bittersweet (2016) and The Longest Photo in the World (2018). It’s a story about a gay high school student, Jun, and Sae, a girl who fantasizes about Boys’ Love, crossing the dichotomy between love and friendship. What She Likes… is an exceptional youth film, with the sensuality peculiar to Japanese teen movies and asks serious questions of LGBTQ drama. It also explores the blind spot of emotion, where no-one knows how it develops on this journey in the romance genre, using a pretty boy and a lovely girl as the medium. (JIN Myunghyun)