Inagaki resumed making films very soon after the war ended with his 1945 'Saigo no joi to' (The Final 'Expel the Foreigners' Group), and in 1947 directed the period drama that is now recognized as the finest film produced by To-Yoko Eiga (today's Toei Company, Ltd.): 'Kokoro tsuki no gotoku' (A Heart Like the Moon).
戦後は20年の「最後の攘夷党」でいち早く活動を開始し、22年東横映画(現・東映)の第一作となった現代劇「こころ月の如く」を監督。