In the memorial record he created about and in memory of his mentor, Yuzo KAWASHIMA, entitled "Sayonara dake ga jinsei da: Eiga kantoku Kawashima Yuzo no shogai" (Life is only a chorus of goodbyes: the life of director Yuzo KAWASHIMA), he chronicled Kawashima's life using a documentary style; in it, he recounted how Kawashima kept working right on to the end, filming on location without breathing a single word to anyone that he was suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.
彼の師匠川島雄三についての追悼録、『サヨナラだけが人生だ映画監督川島雄三の生涯』では、川島の生涯を実証的に取り上げ、川島が筋萎縮性側索硬化症に侵されながらそれを一切他言せず、最後まで映画製作の現場に立っていたことを取り上げた。