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    The Shadow Knows Paid Member

    By Dean Sluyter
    View the print version of this article in PDF format Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior Akira Kurosawa, Director The Criterion Collection $39.95; DVD More »
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    Prelude to a Poem Paid Member

    By Michael Schumacher
    View the print version of this article in PDF format The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems 1937–1952 Allen Ginsberg, edited by Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton and Bill Morgan Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2006 More »
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    REVIEWS: So You Think You're a Buddhist Paid Member

    By Jack Downey
    View the print version of this article in PDF format What Makes You Not a Buddhist Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2007 128 pp.; $19.95 (cloth) More »
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    La-La Dharma Paid Member

    By Dan Zigmond
    View the print version of this article in PDF format Memorial Bruce Wagner New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006 507 pp.; $26.00 (cloth) More »
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    Books in Brief Paid Member

    Outrider Anne Waldman La Alameda Press, 2006 178 pp.; $18.00 (paper) More »
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    REVIEWS: The Shadow Knows Paid Member

    BY THE LATE 1970S, Akira Kurosawa, the aging lion of Japanese cinema, was having trouble getting financing. Despite his international stature as the auteur of Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and some two dozen other remarkable films, Toho Studios was dragging its feet in backing his ambitious new project. But two of his biggest fans, George Lucas (whose Star Wars films owed so much to the samurai tradition) and Francis Coppola, rode to the rescue with a bag of money from 20th Century Fox, and the result was Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior. More »