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Sô Yamamura, who portrays Shingo the father, was actually one year younger than Ken Uehara, who portrayed his son Shuichi.

The same cinematography crew shot Godzilla - Das Original (1954) that same year. Masao Tamai was one of Toho's top cinematographers and shot all of Mikio Naruse's films in the 1950s. Tamai only accepted the job on Godzilla on the condition that the rest of Naruse's crew was hired along with him and that he was given authority on that film's final look.

Based on the novel Sound of the Mountain by Nobel prize winning author Yasunari Kawabata.