He certainly used humorous expressions in many films such as "Dixieland Daimyo," but some scenes of "Blood Type: Blue," in which riot policemen rushed into a public meeting to give severe blows to the participants, show that he was anti-authority, and it looks like a movie made by a certain baby-boomer director (the generation born after the World War II and was washed by the wave of student movement).
もちろん「ジャズ大名」のような諧謔に託すことが多いものの、「ブルークリスマス」で集会になだれ込んで参加者を残虐に殴打する機動隊の描写など、団塊世代の演出と見紛うばかりであり、反権力の人であったことを伺わせる。