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A Tokyo Romance
Author: Ian Buruma
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Retail Price: | $29.99 |
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ISBN: 9781782398004
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2018
Published By: Atlantic
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Published: April 2018
Published By: Atlantic
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Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970s.Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970s.When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo 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 underwent a radical transformation. 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.