Empty Mind Films

It does’nt seem that anything new has been happening for a while, but we have been very very busy. Our new movie The Japanese Sword is in post production and going very well. While it’s tough to forecast a release date, I would guess around end of Summer (the official date). We are also planning [...]

We are very pleased to announce our new release next week of Talking With Buddha. We are very proud of this film. We originally intended to document the current state of Tibetan Buddhism under the guideship of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in India, referred to as Tibet in exile. However, the interviews are so [...]

After six months of negotiations, Empty Mind Films has now signed a deal with Random House Publishing for the movie rights to the classic book, Zen in the Art of Archery (by Eugen Herrigel). We are overjoyed at grabbing such a prize – one of the most popular texts on Japanese culture ever written. Yes, [...]

While on Location filming, we stopped by the Japan Kendo Championships on November 3rd at the Budokan in Tokyo. The Kendo Federation allows me to film down on the floor of the arena which is always the most exciting place to be – just feet away from the action. 
This year the winner was  Uchimura Ryoichi, not [...]

Here are some photos of our location filming on the Japanese Sword. These are at the swordmakers, Kawachi and Manabe, two of Japan’s great masters. Manabe actually makes his own steel for his swords.

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This month of October will see the Empty Mind Film crew on location in Japan. We are starting a six week location shoot that will take us from Tokyo down to the southern island of Kyushu. We are filming a new title on the making of the Japanese sword and its place in Japanese culture. [...]

 If there is a TV serial that has kept being popular for more than 20 years in China, it can only be Journey to the West.
It was on TV as early as in 1984 and tells a story of a monk in Tang Dynasty going on a pilgrimage to India for Buddhist scriptures with his three fellows: a [...]

We are releasing our new film title, The Last Clan in mid-September. It is a film about a unique culture. A way of life that has existed for centuries but now finds itself crushed between the juggernaut of China’s mighty economy and the new found freedom of its young mobile generation. We think you will [...]

On this film trip around China, no matter where we went and what we filmed, the Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hakka houses and Chen Taichi, almost every interviewee would like to show us the diagram of Taichi, and illustrate the principle of yin and yang, bagua, and five elements. For the Hakka houses, people would mention [...]

We commenced filming in Mysore in southern India and its the start of our spiritual journey across India in search of Yoga Gurus. We just completed filming at the Ashtanga Yoga Institute – started by the father of Ashtanga Yoga, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. Attached is a photo of the founders grandson, Shareth, who is now [...]