Awards: Best Actress-Hideko Takamine (San Francisco Film Festival 1962: Best Actress-Hideko Takamine (Mainichi Film Concours 1962: {also for Immortal Love}, Best Screenplay- Zenzo Matsuyama {with The Human Condition, Part III and Different Sons} (Mainichi Film Concours) Recommend by the Ministry of Education.
The graduation song is the same as the one sung in Twenty-Four Eyes (1954) which also stars Hideko Takamine. Not sure if it's a throw but a lovely reminder nonetheless of her role in that film--also a must watch.