His later work "Yami no naka no Chimimoryo" which was said to be seen as a biography of Ko NAKAHIRA from the present point of view (according to Milkman SAITO) and "Hensokyoku" which aimed to escape from the frame of Japan film were already made into video, so they are easily watched, but their evaluation is controversial (Masahiro OGI selected "Hensokyoku" as the best three films in Kinema Junpo in that year).
そして現在の目で見ると中平康の自伝のようにも見える（ミルクマン斉藤による）といわれる後期作品『闇の中の魑魅魍魎』と、日本映画の枠からの脱却を計った『変奏曲』は過去にビデオ化されており比較的鑑賞が容易な作品であるが、評価については賛否が分かれている（荻昌弘は『変奏曲』をその年のキネマ旬報ベストテンのベスト3にあげている）。