Seventeen

Baron Yoshimoto, one of the mangakas that built the gekiga boom in the sixties, finally arrives in Italy with this exciting anthology of short stories, lucid photography of a rebellious youth and struggling with conflict, shame and difficult circumstances. Designer, adventurer and "character" himself, at the height of his popularity Yoshimoto leaves Japan for the United States, only to return in 1985. After his return home he also began to devote himself to painting, inaugurating an innovative hyperrealist style in collaboration with the great Katsuya Terada.