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days to get a particular shot. When they see the edited footage with the results of their labor, they become enthusiastic again. And by editing as I go along, I have only the fine cut to complete when the shooting is finished.

I AM OFTEN ASKED why I don’t pass on to young people what I have accomplished over the years. Actually, I would like very much to do so. Ninety-nine percent of those who worked as my assistant directors have now become directors in their own right. But I don’t think any of them took the trouble to learn the most important things.

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Akira Kurosawa was born in 1910, to an old samurai family. He received many awards for his work, most recently the 1980 Grand Prize at Cannes for Kagemusha. Kurosawa died in 1998.

A NOTE ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Audie Bock was born in New York, grew up in Berkeley, California, and graduated from Wellesley College in 1967. She earned her master’s degree in East Asian studies from Harvard University and is enrolled in a Ph.D. program in fine arts there. She has taught Japanese cinema at Yale, Harvard, and Berkeley. She has lived in Japan at different periods for a total of five years, including the time spent researching her book, Japanese Film Directors, when she first met Akira Kurosawa. She was an assistant producer of the international version of Kagemusha.