In his later years he worked on a film biography of Yaichi AIZU, his teacher in college, but on October 4, 1996, he died of cardiac infarction at home in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo.
晩年は大学時代の恩師会津八一の伝記映画の準備をしていたが、1996年10月4日、心筋梗塞のため東京都世田谷区の自宅で死去。