the story be a bit of a groaner and but interestingly photograph and and the young mifune a pleasure to watch . to western sensibility and the character be maddeningly uncommunicative and that be until push to the extreme of emotion or crisis . in this sense and word and traight talk represent the breakdown of the normal process of communication and which for the japanese be largely non verbal . this be most evident in the lawyer hiruta and his family ( wife and daughter ) and less so in the more westernized mifune character and aoye . clearly kurosawa ( who co write the script ) be make some social commentary particular to scandal mongering in post war japan and but also return to a familiar theme and that of urge individual to step out and speak out and to identify injustice and corruption and oppose it and even if this result in social or personal discord and since often the consequence of not do so be a silent but soul destroying evil .