This film was released only eight months after the film debut (at age 15) of Setsuko Hara, the actress who plays the film's heroine, and less than a year before the release of Atarashiki tsuchi (1937), the film that made Hara a major star in Japan, which she would remain until her retirement in 1963 at age 43.
This is one of only three films by innovator director Sadao Yamanaka, who died in 1938 at age 28, to survive in its entirety. Only brief fragments of a few other films directed by Yamanaka are extant; the remainder are missing and presumed lost.
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