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#Natsuka Kusano
Born in 1985 in Kanagawa Prefecture. Filmmaker. Graduated from Tokai University, Department of Literature, Literature and Creative Writing, and completed the 12th Fiction Course at the Film School of Tokyo, Japan, and directed his first feature film in 2014 with "Spiral Galaxy". His second feature film, "The Kingdom (or About That House)" (2018), was selected by the British Film Institute as one of the "Outstanding Japanese Films of the Years 1925-2019" in 2019.In December 2023, "The Kingdom (or About That House)" will be released in theaters for three weeks.
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