However, Nikkatsu gendai geki of that time was significantly behind the Shochiku Kamata Studio and for countermeasures, he and Iwao MORI established the planning headquarters 'Nikkatsu Kinyo-kai' at the Marunouchi head office with the approval of Koichi NEGISHI who had been promoted to director in June of the same year.
しかし、当時の日活現代劇は松竹蒲田に大きく遅れをとっており、その対策として、同年6月に常務に昇格した根岸耕一の了解を得、森岩雄と丸の内の本社内に企画本部「日活金曜会」を設立。