The director's wife and a film producer, Mineko OKAMOTO, met Okamoto, for the first time in an interview, while he was still a freshman at Toho and she was a student of Waseda University, belonging to the university's movie society.
映画プロデューサーでもある監督夫人の岡本みね子は、早大映研在籍時に、まだ新人であった当時の岡本監督に取材したのがなれそめ。