Word: kurosawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, as if unwilling to end on so despairing a note, Director Akira Kurosawa tacks on a hopeful epilogue: the three men in the rain-drenched ruins discover an abandoned baby, and, by the unselfish act of volunteering to adopt the child, the woodcutter restores the priest's faith in humanity. Though the film could hardly have found a better example of a compassionate saving grace, the scene seems an arbitrary afterthought that does not fit the story...