Mangetsu Hanamura

Mangetsu Hanamura (pen name of Yoshikawa Ichirō), born February 5, 1955, in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese novelist known for his turbulent youth involving institutionalization, dropout, manual labor, music, addiction, and travel before debuting in 1989 with Goddu bureisu monogatari, winning the Shōsetsu Subaru Newcomer Prize. He rose to prominence in 1998 with the Akutagawa Prize for Gerumaniumu no yoru (filmed 2005) and Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Minazuki (filmed 1999), alongside later honors like the 2017 Shibata Renzaburo Award for Nisshoku etsuriku, and continues publishing prolifically on themes of youth, abuse, and personal illness while residing in Kyoto. German IMDb, Goodreads