Introducing Japan's top director / Ray Falk -- A personal record : Kurosawa and I / Donald Richie -- Akira Kurosawa : Japan's poet laureate of film / Show Business Illustrated -- lnterview with Akira Kurosawa / Cinema -- An afternoon with Kurosawa / R.B. Gadi -- Interview with Akira Kurosawa / Yoshi Shirai -- Interview with Akira Kurosawa / Joan Mellen -- The warrior returns / Dan Yakir -- Tokyo stories : Kurosawa interviewed / Tony Rayns -- Kurosawa on his innovative cinema / Audie Bock -- Profiles : Kurosawa frames / Lillian Ross -- Kurosawa directs a cinematic Lear / Peter Grilli -- Kurosawa : an audience with the emperor / John Powers -- Making films for all the people : an interview with Akira Kurosawa / Kyoko Hirano -- The conversation : Kurosawa and García Márquez / Gabriel García Márquez -- An interview with Kurosawa Akira / Kawamoto Sabur*o -- Akira Kurosawa / Judy Stone -- "I am simply a maker of films" : a visit with the Sensei of the cinema / Bert Cardullo -- The emperor of film : no, not yet! / Fred Marshall.