He would return to the era in later films, most notably his hugely successful drama Twenty - Four Eyes (1954), but immediately after Morning for the Osone Family, he dived into escapist fare that better showed off his range, from the poetic
romance The Girl I Loved (1946) to the
noirish thriller Woman (1948) to the comedy Here's to the Young Lady (1949) to the ghost story Yotsuya kaidan (1949).