These two works were referred to as 'Keiko Eiga' (trend film), influenced by socialist thought at that time, and more than 300 feet of the completed film of "Issatsu Tasho Ken" was censored by the prewar Ministry of Home Affairs.
この二作は、当時の社会主義思想の影響を受けた「傾向映画」とされるもので、『一殺多生剣』は内務省の検閲によって、完成フィルムから300フィート余りが削除されている。