Will try to look it up and see if I'm misremembering after i finish, can't quite recall now.
So I searched a bit and it seems it's indeed my faulty memory that was at fault as the impressions I found were pretty explicit about it not ending all that neatly. (Understatement of a year)
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Also; Ai an utter and incomprehensible shit while Mizoguchi a real hero and a real human being.