Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Lower Depths" (1957).

该纪录片由东宝策划，以采访和片场录像等构成，记录了黑泽明在东宝执导的21部电影之制作过程，从准备阶段到经过摄影、剪辑到公映为止的轨迹得到了完整的重现。全剧共21集，分别对应21部电影，收录于东宝在日本分三套发售的“黒澤明 THE MASTERWORKS DVD BOXSET”。

江户时代的贫民窟，那里住著最贫困的小人物，有妓女、小偷、轿夫、唱戏的。

根据高尔基话剧改编，但故事从俄国搬到了法国。一个贵族因境遇所迫，放弃奢华的生活，搬进巴黎贫民窟，见证了社会底层的“暗无天日”，其中有房东的乖戾、一个想当演员者梦想的破灭，还有年轻人的恋爱。

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Seven Samurai" (1954).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Dodes'ka-den" (1970).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortress" (1958).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "High and Low" (1963).

Chris Marker's elliptical, oblique documentary on the making of Akira Kurosawa's "Ran" is an uneasy blend of hagiography (usual Cahiers du Cinema stuff) and Marker's trademark meditations on the mediating role of technology in memory and the human experience, plus probably aging, and etc., etc., etc. These Gallicisms seem out-of-place; but the philosophies are easily discarded. What makes the film a pleasure are the glimpses we see of Kurosawa's work processes, in addition to all the detail and work that goes into the making of a true epic.