From around this time, he shifted his work to made-for-TV films (in which many directors had engaged due to decline in Japanese films after the 1960s) in the 1970s.
この時期と前後して、70年代には舞台をテレビ映画に移す（おりしも60年代からの邦画の斜陽化で、多くの監督がテレビ映画に進出していた）。