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• More a Crowning Moment of Heartbreak, but it's a moment of Awesome tragedy when Setsuko dies, and we see a vision of her playing outside the cave while a terribly sad song echoes from the house at the top of the hill, where people now return to their homes blissfully happy and everything goes back to normal, the forgotten children erased from history. And then we find out it's not over yet, there's still the cremation to go through.
  • What really drives that scene home is the juxtaposition of the situations. Here we have the brother and sister we've been with for the entire movie, who have lost everything, and then we're shown a family who'd successfully fled the situation, come back home, and found everything intact.

Daughter: Even the old record player's still here!