Thus, a shot of a smoking factory chimney, held for about ten seconds, recalls the establishing shots of Tokyo's industrial environment in Tokyo Story (Tokyo monogatari, 1953), Early Spring (
Soshun, 1956), and An Autumn Afternoon (Samma no aji, 1962).
It was also Yamanaka's third collaboration with the members of the progressive theatre troupe Zenshin-za, the previous two being the still extant Kochiyama
Soshun, 1936 and the earlier The Village Tattooed Man (Machi no irezumimono, 1935), now sadly lost.