Kumashiro's 1974 film, "Man and Woman Behind the Fusuma Screen: Enduring Skin" ("Yojo-han Fusuma No Urabari: Shinobi Hada") starred Nikkatsu's reigning "Roman porno" Queen, Junko Miyashita. Movie critic Tadao Sato called the film "a masterful porno film rich in emotion, anarchy, and nihilism." Junko Miyashita won the Hochi News award for best actress of 1979 after starring in Kumashiro's "Woman with Red Hair" ("Akai Kami No Onna") (1979), which the Weissers, in their "Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films" call "one of the very best Nikkatsu pink films." Uncharacteristically for Kumashiro, "Woman with Red Hair" has a straightforward narrative structure, but Jasper Sharp writes that it is still a "difficult" film for viewers who are not familiar with Kumashiro's work. The story, in which a sexually voracious woman comes to live with a construction worker, can be read either as a male fantasy, or as a story of a woman's search for sexual satisfaction. Roughly one-third of the film takes place in the bedroom, with the claustrophobic atmosphere heightened by such exterior sounds as moaning from neighboring drug addicts, and non-stop rain. Sharp writes that it is perhaps best interpreted as "out-and-out fantasy".