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Mangetsu Hanamura
Writer, Additional CreditsBorn February 5, 1955 (70 years)
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
-- Books from Japan Biography
Filmography
| 2005 | The Whispering of the Gods · as Novel |
| 1999 | Minazuki · as Novel |