The title ("Kawasaki's Rose") comes from the name of an origami design. It therefore references the complicated layers of secrets peeled away in the film. According to the director, the character of the Japanese artist named Kawasaki who specializes in flower paintings came after the name for the film was chosen.
Czech Republic's official submission to 83rd Academy Award's Foreign Language in 2011.
According to director Jan Hrebejk, originally he planned to cast famous directors Jirí Menzel and Jirí Krejcík as psychiatrist Pavel Josek and retired interrogator Kafka, respectively.
The film forms a loose trilogy with Jan Hrebejk's two other films Innocence (2011) (Nevinnost) and Honeymoon (2013) (
(Libanky), themed around guilt and forgiveness.