My Lunch With Mihoko

Overview

My Lunch With Mihoko is a record of a lunch between the author, Ellen Pearlman and Mihoko Okamura. It was filmed in 2005 at Daitoku-ji Monastery, Ryoan-ji Temple Garden, and various sites in Kyoto Japan. In this 12:47 minute video Mihoko, who was the secretary to famed Zen scholar D.T. Suzuki for the last fifteen years of his life discusses the following ; her life with Dr. Suzuki, her understanding of Zen Buddhism, John Cage, Isamu Noguchi, Jack Kerouac, and the Beats