For this now lost film, which served as a forerunner of the Japanese salaryman (sarariman) genre, later to become very popular, the director, Ozu, for the first and only time in his career employed a dissolve between scenes. According to him, he used the device to evoke the atmosphere of the dawn. Although he would later concede that some directors use the dissolve brilliantly, he disliked it so much when he himself used it, that he never attempted it again.