It is, however, a film characteristic of more tragic love story which ends at a scene where Harima AOYAMA goes to seppuku (suicide by disembowelment) in the form of immediately following Okiku.
ただしすぐお菊の後を追う形で、青山播磨も切腹に向かう所で終わる、より悲恋物語の性格が強い作品である。