Tsuyoshi Shôji, in this moving fable about an elderly children's book author and a BDSM sex worker, tells the story of two very different gay men who meet at a decisive moment in their lives. Strange bonds are forged between an ageing Mr Yama, who does not accept the deterioration of not only his body but also his place in society, and a young BDS worker, Leo, who combines youth, beauty, health and a relentless optimism about life. Combining colourful imagery and erotic surrealism far from the codes of YAOI (fiction centred on sentimental and/or sexual relationships between male characters), Old Narcissus tells a story steeped in deep sincerity.
