His works range from entertainment movies to avant-garde movies as well as Jidaigeki-TV drama (period drama), and he worked on making films on the front lines from the golden period of Japanese films in the Showa era to the early 21st century.
娯楽映画から実験的映画、更にはテレビ時代劇ドラマまでを幅広く手がけ、昭和の日本映画黄金期から21世紀初頭まで、第一線で映画制作に取り組んだ。