After graduating from the preliminary course of Keio University, he moved to Kyoto; at the age of 23, he entered a motion-picture company named "Ogasawara Production," just established in Kyoto in 1923 by Meiho OGASAWARA, the eldest son of Naganari OGASAWARA.
慶應義塾大学予科を卒業後、京都に移り、23歳、小笠原長生の長男小笠原明峰が1923年、京都に設立したばかりの映画会社「小笠原プロダクション」に入社。