Since he graduated from the University while it was the middle of the Sino-Japanese War, he was called up (after all he was conscripted twice) to Manchuria and Burma after less than one year after he started working for Shochiku, he also spent time in a prisoner camp.
大学を卒業したのが日中戦争真っ只中であったため、松竹入社後1年を経ずして召集（結局2度応召した）されて旧満州やビルマへ出征、捕虜収容所生活も経験した。