This movie was one of the ten favorite films of distinguished author and Japanese cinema fan Susan Sontag.
This film was the very first of many collaborations between director Kôzaburô Yoshimura and screenwriter Kaneto Shindô. Yoshimura had been invited to a last house party given by a once rich but now impoverished noble family, and on returning home wanted to make a fictional film on the subject. He sought out a scriptwriter who would be interested in working on the project and located Shindô. The resulting film was voted the Best Film of its year by critics. Together, the two men would later co-found Kindai Eiga Kyokai (Modern Film Association), one of the first major postwar independent film production companies. Shindô would go on to become a famous director in his own right (e.g., The Naked Island (1960)).
Keiko Tsushima's debut.
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