While Paramount Pictures, Inc. distributed the first production, "Rakuyo Uyu" (Hunger in Kyoto), directed by Takashi AZUMA and released it on September 15, 1931, it was decided that Shinko Kinema, which was reorganized from Teikoku Kinema (formally known as Teikoku Kinema Engei Kabushiki Gaisha [Imperial Cinema Entertainment Co. Ltd.]) during the same year, would distribute their films starting from the second production, "Fuun Nagato-jo" (Nagato-jo Castle in Turbulent Times), directed by the same director.
第1作は東隆史監督の『洛陽餓ゆ』で、パラマウント映画社の配給により同年7月15日に公開されたが、第2作、おなじく東監督の『風雲長門城』からは、同年に帝国キネマから改組された新興キネマの配給となった。