As Okamoto insisted that he would like to shoot the movies even though they would not be publicly released and only screened on his house's fusuma (sliding doors), she tried all she could to raise the fund for film shooting, by not only mortgaging the house, but also by temporarily keeping the fixed deposit certificates of her acquaintances to borrow the money on them.
岡本が「自宅の襖に写してでも撮りたい」という映画のために、自宅を抵当に入れることはもちろん、知り合いから定期預金を集めてこれを抵当に銀行から借入れる等、資金集めに奔走した。