The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.
| Directing | Keigo Kimura | Director |
| Writing | Keigo Kimura | Screenplay |
| Writing | Ryūnosuke Akutagawa | Novel |
| Camera | Yasuichiro Yamazaki | Director of Photography |