Yoda recollected that since "Umi no nai minato" (The Port without an Ocean, 1931), 'when producing a movie, Murata lost his vigor and was weak enough to think that his chronic disease diabetes were worsening, and looked painful when he was thinking about production, laying himself to stage sets and putting his head in his hands.'
彼は、『海のない港』（1931年）以降は「製作している村田の姿にも勢いがなく、持病の糖尿病が嵩じてきているのではないかと思える元気のなさや、セットに身を投げ、悩むように頭をかかえて、演出を案ずる姿など痛いたしいこともあった」と回想している。