★A new essay by film scholar Alexander Sesonske, author of Jean Renoir: The French Films 1924-1939
〔Donzoko/Akira Kurosawa, 1957〕
★Audio commentary featuring Japanese-film expert Donald Richie, author of A Hundred Years of Japanese Film
★A 33-minute documentary on The Lower Depths from the series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create, including interviews with Kurosawa, actress Kyoko Kagawa, art director Yoshiro Muraki, and others
★Cast Biographies by Stephen Price, author of The Warriors Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa
★A new essay by authors Keiko McDonald (From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Films) and Thomas Rimer (A Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature)