This work and another film "Onna no sono" (literally, the Garden of Women) won first and second place of 'the top ten of Kinema Junpo magazine' of that year, presiding over "Seven Samurai" by Akira KUROSAWA.
同年の「キネマ旬報ベストテン」では同作と『女の園』が黒澤明の『七人の侍』を抑えて1位・2位を独占する。