 This was considerably larger than that of "Maurice" and "A Room with a View", which led to trouble in raising capital in the UK and the United States.Orion Pictures, the film's distributor, was on the verge of bankruptcy and only contributed a small amount to the overall budget.A solution presented itself when Merchant Ivory sought funding through an intermediary in Japan, where the previous Forster adaptations, particularly "Maurice", had been very successful.