Kurosawa was brash in comparison, pasting elements of Western style onto the traditional visual poetry of his elders.

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It provides the characters and visual poetry on which to project our deepest feelings about the persistence of love, the power of friendship and the joy of embracing life toward the end of life.

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The result is ice-as-poetry, a visual panorama that is greater than the sum of its frozen molecules, making clear that glaciers deserve our reverence, and are certainly not just an obstacle to be removed so that oil companies can drill for more oil.

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