{"product_id":"tokyo-romance","title":"Tokyo Romance","description":"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. \n\nThrough 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.\n\n 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.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"New - Hardback","offer_id":32986873299029,"sku":"9781782397991N","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/9781782397991.jpg?v=1612398308","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/tokyo-romance","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}