He also wrote excellent essays and cinematic reviews, in which he criticized the situation that the only films with a certain theme or social problem were easily selected for the top ten of film awards, and repeatedly insisted that a film should be evaluated by how it shot the subjects in stead of what kind of subjects it shot.
エッセイや映画評論にも辣腕なところを見せ、映画賞でテーマ性や社会性のある作品ばかりが安易にベストテン入りする状況を厳しく批判し、映画を原作や素材によって評価するのではなく、その素材をどのように映像化したかをこそ評価すべきだと繰り返し訴えた。