Starting in 1950, he began working mainly for Toho; his film 'Miyamoto Musashi,' starring Toshiro Mifune as Musashi, won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
25年からは主に東宝で活躍し、31年三船敏郎の「宮本武蔵」がアカデミー賞外国語映画賞を受賞。