This film was the first of the highly profitable "three girl" (sannin musume) musical films that Toho Studios released in the mid-to-late 1950s, which brought together as a trio the popular young singers Hibari Misora, Chiemi Eri and Izumi Yukimura.
The film was Toho Studios' highest grossing film of 1955, and the third highest grossing movie of all films released in Japan that year.
Toshio Sugie: As the movie director directing a "jidaigeki" period drama, the location-shooting of which the students encounter on their trip to Kyoto.