The film was considered to be work of art that symbollically represent the invasiveness of Japanese colonialists with the rich gangster being the Japanese and the man who was stolen of his potential wife being the korean nation and was banned by the Japanese authorities on the very next day of release.
This movie was viewed as a powerful work of art that symbolically portrayed the aggressive expansion of Japanese colonizers, with a wealthy gangster representing Japan and a man whose fiancée was taken embodying Korea's loss of potential, leading to an immediate ban by Japanese authorities upon its release.