[1] It is a hippie road movie epic, chronicling the trek that a handful of people take to reach Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.

Burning with passion and the vitality of youth, they make their trek via land and sea, on foot, motorcycle, ship and camel.

However, after the production of Sunset, Sunrise, he left Nikkatsu and never worked with the company again, instead making films for such studios as Toei and Toho.

Due to the production’s scope, it was shot by four cinematographers: Yonezô Maeda, Yoshihiro Yamazaki, Masahiro Tanaka and Koichi Suzuki.

Co-screenwriter Nobuo Yamada collaborated with Kurahara multiple times, earlier on Safari 5000 (1969), and later with Two in the Amsterdam Rain (1975) and Strawberry Road (1991).