[3] Two years later she signed an exclusive contract with Japanese movie studio Nikkatsu,[3] appearing in films such as Season of the Sun.

[4] Nakahara married Kinji Fukasaku, who at the time was a young director at Toei, after they worked together on the film Wolves, Pigs and Men (1964).

According to her, there were no meetings with Fukasaku, and although he gave her some acting instruction on the set, they hardly spoke to each other otherwise, but after the film he took, as she described, a furious approach with letters and phone calls.

[5] Whenever he directed his own starring actresses, the media was taken with stories of the crisis of their marriage.

An apartment manager, at the request of her son, entered her home and found her collapsed in the bathroom.