The protagonist Xiuhu's family is destroyed and his wife and son are separated, but we have no desire to sympathize with him at all. All we felt was total numbness, endless darkness, we didn't sympathize with Xiuhu, we just felt it was the way it should be.
The so-called war of good and evil will eventually come to an end. No matter who is strong and who is weak, no matter how many strategies and tactics, who wins and who loses, there are almost no survivors in the end.
Only those who have no desire and no contention, such as the blind man Tsurumaru who plays the flute, are the objects that the director wants to sympathize with.
This is a humanitarian explosion of fatalism and compassion for Akira Kurosawa in his later years.
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