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Mangetsu Hanamura (b. 1955)

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Alias:
Ichiro Yoshikawa
吉川一郎
花村萬月

Birthplace:
Tokyo, Japan

Born:
February 5, 1955

Biography from TheMovieDB

Mangetsu Hanamura (1955–) portrays sex, violence, and religion with fierce intensity. After graduating from middle school, he rode around the country on a motorcycle, supporting himself with various jobs until 1989 when he was awarded the Shōsetsu Subaru New Writers’ Award and his literary career took off. When Hanamura was a child, his father used to force him to read literary classics written in old-style Chinese characters while inflicting physical abuse on him. After his father's death, Hanamura's behavior grew increasingly problematic and at 11 he was put in a Catholic reformatory where he suffered a number of intense episodes, some of them sexual in nature. These grueling experiences combined to make Hanamura an "outlaw" writer.  -- Books from Japan Biography

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Novel:
1996  Ignatius
1997  XX: Graceful Beautiful Beast
1999  Minazuki
2005  The Whispering of the Gods

Story:
1994  XX: Beautiful Hunter
1996  Ignatius
1997  XX: Graceful Beautiful Beast
1999  Minazuki
2005  The Whispering of the Gods

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