According to Iyokichi KONDO's reminiscences, when reading a scenario of "Sei no kagayaki," Murata told Kaeriyama, 'The method of how to make scenarios is not understandable to us, but this scenario is Shinpa-Geki (a New-School Play) like this.' and stayed up all night long for three straight nights to revise the scenario with Kaeriyama and Kondo.
近藤伊与吉の回想によると『生の輝き』のシナリオを読んだ際、村田が帰山に「脚本の作法と言うものは吾々には解らないが、そのままではその脚本は新派劇ですよ」と発言し、帰山・近藤と三晩徹夜してシナリオを直したという。