Tokyo Romance

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.

Cand Ian Buruma a sosit la Tokyo ca tanar student la film in 1975, a gasit o metropola febrila si suprarealista in mijlocul unui boom economic, in care totul parea nou si istoria a ramas doar in fragmente. Prin aventurile sale in lumea avangardei teatru, intalnirile sale cu acte de carnaval, fotografi de moda si momente in platou cu Akira Kurosawa, Buruma a ajuns la varsta.