Nagisa Oshima
In 1967, when working with Nagisa Oshima on a film "Sing a Song of Sex" ("Nihon Shunka Kō") he met Nobuko Miyamoto. He and Miyamoto married in 1969. Around this time, he changed his stage name to "伊丹 十三" (Itami Jūzō) with the kanji "十" (ten) rather than "一" (one), and worked as a character actor in film and television.