[1] The series was based on an original comic book of the same name by Yolanda Vargas Dulché, who also adapted the screenplay for television.
Her tragedy is intensified by falling in love with the son of the English ambassador in Japan, which triggers a series of obstacles in her path generated by the cultural shock.
The main characters of the story were played by Mexican actress Ana Martín and Argentine actor Boy Olmi.
Free at last, Oyuki travels in search of her daughter Yuriko (Cecilia Gabriela), who is now a sophisticated English lady of 17 years old and sees her mother as a stranger.
Orozco hired scenographers Cristina Martinez de Velasco and Teresa Pecannins, who managed to play all the hundreds of sets conceived on the comic book.
Also in Cuernavaca it was recorded a large percentage of the telenovela, in the scandalous and eccentric mansion of the American socialite Barbara Hutton, with materials from Thailand.
Busting the recordings of the telenovela Ana Martin was invited to Japan, because the Japanese Emperor wanted to personally congratulate by having played brilliantly a geisha.
This was the only Mexican Telenovela dubbed in Cebuano and Hiligaynon in the Philippines from the regionals in Visayas and Mindanao, played by GMA Iloilo, Cebu and Davao.