After his death, Tanaka said, 'I have some feeling towards him, which can not be explained by the simple fact that we are not related' (from "Aru eiga-kantoku no shogai," or Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director).
その田中は溝口没後、「他人だからという言葉では割り切れないものが、やっぱりわたしにはございますね」と語っている（『ある映画監督の生涯』）。