there be a phrase by the experimental filmmaker nathaniel dorsky and who say some film be structure like a camera mount on the head of a dog who go down an alley and sniff everything along the way . that how this movie be . the structure be kurosawa start out a a baby and then he become a kid and then a young man and then a movie director and then he start make amasterpieces and then he grow old and the end . the word amasterpiece be use a lot in this film to describe kurosawa output and without explain what make his film so good or great . just because the off screen narrator read a script say that a film be a masterpiece and be we suppose to kiss his rear end and accept that a certain movie be one of the great work of art of the 20th century . and one more point . the voice of paul scofield be use a the voice of kurosawa and when excerpt from the director memoir be be read off screen . he bring pear shaped shakespearean tone to the text . but why him . if you be make a documentary about billie holiday and would you use dame judi densch a her voice .