# A Tokyo Romance

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- Book: [A Tokyo Romance](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-buruma/a-tokyo-romance) ([A Tokyo Romance.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-buruma/a-tokyo-romance.md))
- Authors: [Ian Buruma](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-buruma)
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- ISBN: 978-17-8239-802-8
- Published: 2019-03-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

‘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.