He was permitted to resume his position as president of Towa Trading in 1950, and changed the company name to Toho-Towa in 1951. He continued to make efforts to promote Japanese cinema overseas, and screened "Rashomon" by Akira Kurosawa at the Venice Film Festival in 1951 where it won the Golden Lion award. He was production supervisor for the 1953 American-Japanese joint venture "Anatahan", directed by Josef von Sternberg.