Yet for a period of several years thereafter no one was willing to support his projects; during these lean years he was forced to live in such poverty he never knew where his next meal was coming from, and he also came down with a gastric ulcer.
しかし、一時は企画がまったく受け入れられず、胃潰瘍を患い、明日の米にも困るほどの赤貧生活を経験している。