I enjoy all of the commentators as well. Desser's Eros Plus Massacre, Richie (and Anderson's) The Japanese Film, Mellen's Waves at Genji's Door, and Stephen Prince's The Warrior's Camera are all worth reading. Also, there's a great issue of Post-Script that Keiko McDonald put together a few years ago about Kurosawa. Anyone interested in the director could do no better than search for a copy.
I think just about any title they bring up during an in-house produced extra can be considered a "future title". All the people who bought and watched the extras of Harakiri and the Seven Samurai rerelease are all in heat over The Human Condition Trilogy and Humanity and Paper Balloons now, if they weren't before (and rightfully so.) It's probably just a matter of time (but random speculation goes somewhere else around here, so I'll just leave it at that.)This is one of the aspects of Criterion (and also of Warner) that I most admire - the ability to include material that the audience for their discs will find fascinating, but which might relate to films put out by other companies or that aren't released at all.
I think this episode of It's Wonderful To Create was *the* best of the series so far. There were so many details, I ended up watching it twice. The Oshima/Kurosawa conversation was fantastic as well. If only every release had that kind of "face time" with the director, to really get to know them.