The fall of 1923 saw the emergence of a new film star, Tsumasaburo BANDO, as well as young new directors Buntaro FUTAGAWA and Kintaro INOUE, both born in the twentieth century and thus still in their early twenties; consequently, Ichitaro was more and more often given roles as supporting actor, and his last leading role, acting alongside Utako TAMAKI, was in "Moyuru Uzumaki" (Burning Spiral), directed by Koroku NUMATA, which was made in 1924 when Ichitaro was forty-seven.
同年秋には新スター阪東妻三郎が登場、二川文太郎、井上金太郎といった20世紀生まれの20代前半の監督が登場するにあたり、次第に脇にシフト、47歳を迎える1924年（大正13年）の沼田紅緑監督の『燃ゆる渦巻』での環歌子との共演あたりが最後の主役となる。