She met Masahiro MAKINO (マキノ正博, later マキノ雅弘 in Chinese character), who was the Nikkatsu film director at that time, through her accident that might have caused her blindness during the filming of "Edo no Arawashi" (Wild Eagle in Edo, 1937) and married him in 1940.
『江戸の荒鷲』（1937年）の撮影中に失明騒ぎを起こしたことがきっかけで当時日活の監督だったマキノ正博（当時はこの名前）と出会い、1940年に結婚する。