A Tokyo Romance
Author(s): Ian Buruma
When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo as a young film student in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, where everything seemed new and history only remained in fragments. Through his adventures in the world of avant-garde theatre, his encounters with carnival acts, fashion photographers and moments on-set with Akira Kurosawa, Buruma came of age. For an outsider, unattached to the cultural burdens placed on the Japanese, this was a place to be truly free. A Tokyo Romance is a portrait of a young artist and the fantastical city that shaped him, and a timeless story about the desire to transgress boundaries: cultural, artistic and sexual.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Atlantic Books, Limited
- : Atlantic Books
- : 01 February 2019
- : 01 April 2019
- : books
Special Fields
- : 256
- : Paperback
- : Ian Buruma