Complex sentence: Director Yamada decided not to continue the series after Atsumi's death and instead reworked a Tora-san script stuck in development as "Niji wo Tsukamu Otoko" starring Nishida Toshiyuki as a traveling cinema operator.
Split into simpler sentences: Director Yamada decided not to continue the series after Atsumi's death. However, he instead reworked a Tora-san script stuck in development as "Niji wo Tsukamu Otoko" starring Nishida Toshiyuki as a traveling cinema operator.