Another excellent movie by Kurosawa. What's special about it is probably the Western movie's characteristics : the setting stage would have been fine for a Spaghetti movie, there are two clans fighting in the road, a corrupted sheriff, and even a gun. Not my favorite though.
Jim: I agree with you that in love a couple is not ideal. You only have to look around. You wanted to invent something better by rejecting hypocrisy and resignation. You wanted to invent love. But pioneers must be humble and unselfish. We must face the truth. We failed. We made a mess of everything.