After watching the movie on the premiere, Hiroko Yakushimaru felt very displeased with her own performance and seriously considered leaving her acting career forever.
Ironically she won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actress for her performance. After she picked up the award she declared "This movie really burnt me".
In the original script the character of Shizuka was more ambitious and mean towards Hatori, but that had to be changed to "keep clean the image of idol" that Hiroko Yakushimaru had.
On their script, Haruhiko Arai and Shin'ichirô Sawai wanted to pay homage to Ève... (1950), the Joseph L. Mankiewicz's classic, who both loved.
The director Shin'ichirô Sawai came up with the idea of using the Shizuko Natsuki's novel's plot as a stage play within another story instead of making a conventional adaptation.
The writer loved this idea.