In the same year, he was a second winner in a scenario contest for second-type movies (available for all generations) which was sponsored by Tokyo Nichinichi Newspaper (the first winner was Iwao MORI who became a director of Toho Co., Ltd. later and the third winner was Komatsu KITAMURA, a scenario writer in Shochiku Kamata.)
同年には『東京日日新聞』主催の乙種活動写真（全年齢対象）向けの脚本募集に二位入選している（一位は後の東宝専務の森岩雄、三位は後の松竹蒲田の脚本家北村小松）。