However, with the recovery of his health, he released his autobiography "Fukugan no Eizo: Watashi to Kurosawa Akira" (lit. "Multifacet Images: Akira Kurosawa and I") in 2006 in which he wrote of his relationship with Akira KUROSAWA.
しかし、体調回復に伴い、2006年に黒澤明との関係を語った自著『複眼の映像私と黒澤明』を発表。