Nikkatsu assigned Imamura this showcase film for the hot singer Frank Nagai and felt tricked by the result: a nonsensical comedy in which the studio's only stipulation (that the title song be played at the beginning, middle, and end of the film) was at least met. The story centers on a henpecked drugstore owner who periodically lapses into reliving his happy wartime idyll with a native girl on a tropical island. Already Imamura was drawn to the primitive; of this film, which he does not regard highly, he has quipped, "Even when I was supposed to make a film situated in the center of modern Tokyo, somehow I ended up on a deserted island." The film is seen outside of Japan for the first time in this retrospective tour.