He worked as an assistant director along side Hiroshi INAGAKI and Ishiro HONDA, before being promoted to a director in "Osorubeki Hiasobi" (Fearsome Fire play) in 1959.
稲垣浩、本多猪四郎らの助監督を経て、1959年、『恐るべき火遊び』で監督に昇進。