Sidney Lumet, the director of such classic as 12 ANGRY MEN (1957), LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (1962), THE PAWNBROKER (1964), SERPICO (1973), DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975), and NETWORK (1976), among many others, discusses Akira Kurosawa and his achievement in RAN. He was interviewed in New York City in July 2005.