Contains only 353 shots. The average shot length is 14.8 seconds.
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #526.
Chishu Ryu and Shuji Sano played father and son in the film, even though Ryu was only eight years older than Sano in real life.
In 1919 when Ozu was a high school student, a boat in which one of his classmates was riding capsized in the Dotonbori canal in Osaka. This was said to be the inspiration for the scene in the film in which the student drowns from a capsized boat.