Kurosawa remains unchallenged as one of the century's greatest film directors. In 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. Through his long and distinguished career he managed, like very few others in the teeth of a huge and relentless industry…