 He also usually focused on showing how ordinary people's lives were destroyed by war or calamity and how they cured themselves.Inoue lived in Ichikawa, Chiba in the 1970s, and moved to Kamakura, Kanagawa from 1989, where he lived until his death.He had three daughters by his first wife, Yoshiko Nishidate, who was a stage actress and political activist.