In May of the same year, he was nominated as the second winner in the Third Kinema Junpo Top Ten (1926) because he used the setting featuring the abstract painting style of Tomoyoshi MURAYAMA as Russian Constructivism in a movie "Nichirin" a joint film with Daisuke ITO and drew a lot of attention.
同年5月、連合映画芸術家協会の伊藤大輔との競作『日輪』では、ロシア構成主義者村山知義の抽象画風の装置を演出に取り入れ話題となり、第3回（1926年度）キネマ旬報ベストテンで第2位に選出。