[citation needed] "Soyokaze" (そよかぜ, Soft breeze) was released on October 11, 1945, and was the first movie produced after World War II in Japan.
Ringo no Uta was first broadcast on the radio on December 10, 1945, and the 78rpm record was released by Nippon Colombia in January 1946.
Ringo no Uta was also originally written as a wartime song with the same nationalistic tone, but was changed due to the strict censorship rules set by the then Japanese military authorities.
Composer Tadashi Manjome, who was also the producer of the movie Soyokaze held a discussion with Sato, and the lyrics to the song were altered from their wartime original.
Manjome and Sato encouraged Namiki to sing more brightly, but she had trouble with grief, losing her elder brother and boyfriend during the war.