Aside from the two short stories this film adapts (see below), director Ishiro Honda was inspired by a story in the Japanese newspaper headlines concerning thrill-seeking rich kids who took their father's yacht out to sea and had to be rescued. The early drafts of its script originally made this story more explicit by featuring characters who were spoiled young sons of the Japanese upper class. As Honda described it, "Around this time, there were people who started to be Americanized, or have a modern lifestyle. There were rich people who sent their kids to school in foreign cars, that kind of thing. We tried to show that social background in this film."

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