In Japan the film won two awards from the Mainichi Film Concours. Nobuko Otowa won the award for Best Actress for her work in "Kuroneko" and "Operation Negligee", and Kiyomi Kuroda won the award for Best Cinematography for this and "Operation Negligee". Tom Milne of the "Monthly Film Bulletin" found the film "Much less extravgant than Shindo's earlier excusion into ghostly horrors with "Onibaba"" and that the film was "more of a mood piece." The review concluded that the film "has a sufficiently ingenious story to remain enjoyable throughout, and it sporadically discovers moments of genuinely bizarre invention"