However, his depiction of poverty was so realistic that the movie was extensively censored and thus he had no choice but to release the movie with the biwa-geki (a play accompanied by the music of the biwa, or Japanese lute) as a filler.
しかし、貧乏生活の描写が余りにも写実的過ぎて検閲で大幅にカットされ、やむなくつなぎで琵琶劇を入れて公開したという。