The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Expanded and Updated With a New EpilogueIn an epilogue provided for his incomparable study of Akira Kurosawa (1910 1998), Donald Richie reflects on Kurosawa's life work of thirty feature films and describes his last, unfinished project, a film set in the Edo period to be called The Ocean Was Watching. Kurosawa remains unchallenged as one of the century's greatest film directors. Through his long and distinguished career he managed, like very few others in the teeth of a huge and relentless