From the time when this "Machi no Tejinashi" was being shot to around the time this movie started to show, he invited Sotoji KIMURA to his house in Tojiin as shosei (a student who is given room and board in exchange for performing domestic duties), and headhunt Eiji NAKANO from Nikkatsu Baseball Team to employ him for Haiyubu (Actors Department).
この『街の手品師』撮影・封切前後は木村荘十二を等持院の自宅の書生に招き、日活野球部にいた中野英治を俳優部に採用している。