Edited sentence: However, modern viewers may find the cruel and selfish behavior of Tatsuya, who abandons Eiko more than once and ultimately refuses to help her when she becomes pregnant (leading her to seek an abortion, from which she dies), inexplicable.In short, it is quite difficult to avoid disliking the silent, brooding and ultimately explosive Tatsuya, which may substantially reduce the appeal of the film to modern viewers who are less familiar with this previously more common male archetype.The bathing scenes, passionate kissing scenes and express allusions to out-of-wedlock sex may have had much to do with the film's popularity at the time it was released