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泣いた
The point of the re-construing of Shakespeare's character configurations, the splitting of them into two, finally becomes clear in the last and most powerful image of the film. Kurosawa presents Tsurumaru as "the thing itself' (III.iv. 104), man as a victim of both spheres. He was blinded by Hidetora and he is now left abandoned by Kaede's murder of his sister and nurse. They had gone to fetch his flute, his only consolation.
泣いた
He stands on a precipice, the ruins of a castle, ignorant of what has happened. He stumbles and drops the talismanic portrait of Amida Buddha his sister gave him as the sun sets behind him in the location of the Pure Land. He is the central focus of the film, the third Cordelia, the victim of both worlds, set against impassive Nature-the realm that Kurosawa's camera, unlike Shakespeare's poetry, has inhabited