Features a cameo from crooner Chris Isaak who briefly appeared as a card-playing gambler.
Portions of this film were spliced into "Astron Belt", the first laserdisc-based arcade game.
This movie was followed by the television show "San Ku Kai". San Ku Kai was very popular in France were it was dubbed into French by the same people who dubbed the animated series Capitaine Flam ("Captain Futur"). In fact it was more popular in France than it ever was in Japan.
The TV show "Sankuokai" was very popular in Perú, in 1981. The main theme was released in a LP vinyl with the best of the pop/rock music of that year. There was also a card album.
This was the last feature film for Jerry Ito.