Video artist Michael Goldberg counts himself lucky to have been able to work on projects that inspired him: those focusing on cross-cultural communication between Japan and the world.
But the nation’s protracted economic slump has hit his business severely and is casting a shadow on his recent project, the first in-depth documentary in English and Japanese on Zen philosopher Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, who is credited with introducing Zen Buddhism to the West.
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