In our pre-World Cinema Showcase coverage, MUBARAK ALI comes to terms with the atrocities of war in the searing 1971 documentary Winter Soldier; CALEB STARRENBURG recalls his own Tokyo story by way of Mamoru Oshii's landmark anime twinset Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence; and NICHOLAS BUTLER discovers The Bard's prose in the most unlikely of places in Shakespeare Behind Bars. On the horizon: The Beat My Heart Skipped, Millennium Actress, Sha Po Lang, AND the return of our festival weblog, scheduled for daily reports during the Wellington leg of the Showcase. Read more via The Festival Reader (including an updated programme + censor ratings).