 After graduating, he tried acting and even appeared in Kurosawa's feature debut, the pink film "Kandagawa Wars".He worked at other odd jobs before finally finding employment at a TV production company in 1989, where he began working on documentaries.While working freelance or under contract, he made a number of television documentaries before making "A" (1998) and "A2" (2001), two documentary movies about the everyday life of Aum Shinrikyo followers.