'The whole thing sparks astonishingly to life' Observer
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.
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- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9781782398028
- Number of Pages:
- 256
- Publication Date:
- 07/03/2019
- Publisher:
- Atlantic Books
- Authors:
- Buruma, Ian
- Illustrations Note:
- integrated b&w photographs
- Year Published:
- 2019
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9781782398028