A Tokyo Romance

A Tokyo Romance

Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970s.



'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.


Auteur | Ian Buruma
Taal | Engels
Type | Paperback
Categorie | Mens & Maatschappij

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