Director Yōichi Higashi was known for making films about women, but in an interview at the time of the film's release, he said, "I was constantly being offered films of the same vein, and to be honest, I was tired of women's films... [but] I didn't want to use young boys today as a subject because they're boring. Women live by their emotions, and even though what they say and what they do are contradictory, they live vividly and are moving overall, so I made two women's films in a row." Higashi chose to shoot the film without a traditional script, instead employing a dialogue writer to write scenes each night and make revisions on set (considered a first for the Japanese film industry at the time). To keep the production on track, Higashi kept a rough outline of the story in his notebook. Higashi also allowed the cast to
improv lines and took their opinions of the characters into account when ordering script revisions (Itsuki was credited for the final screenplay). Director Higashi explained: "I don't like jobs that become familiar, so in that sense I may not be a professional director. Depending on how you look at it, my shooting style may be quite careless." The film was shot entirely
on location. ==Release==