[4] Nakagawa would go on to star in several films for the studio, including the Office Lady Journal series, and Tatsumi Kumashiro's critically praised Lovers Are Wet.

[5] The film also marked major Roman porno director, Noboru Tanaka's debut.

In a 2005 interview, he said, "I thought the very atmosphere that surrounded us at the end of World War II, was similar to that enveloping a woman unable to feel anything when having sex.

He concludes, "Tedious and formulaic, this is a film which, were it not for the sporadic sex scenes, would be the stuff of soap opera.

[2] Director Tanaka would revisit the flower shop motif in Afternoon Affair: Transformation (1973), which the Weissers call a kind of "flip-side" of Beads from a Petal.