In his later years, Akira Kurosawa gave up almost all Hei's labels, including strong contrasts, high-profile colors, unexpected editing, conflicts between language and plot, exaggerated expressions, and obvious preaching. This film is gentle and steady. It doesn't look like his film in any way. Apart from deep memory, the rest is to say "It's okay, it's okay" and accept everything. In the last paragraph, the old grandmother walked hard alone in the rain. The umbrella was blown over by the violent wind, and turned into upward blooming flowers with a whirr, the camera turned into slow motion, the music played, it was a lively nursery rhyme, and the whole tragedy ended with this meaning. Long.
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