 For the German-Japanese co-production, "The Woman with the Red Hat" (1982), Kumashiro worked with Pink Film producer-director Kōji Wakamatsu.The production was an unsuccessful attempt on Wakamatsu's part to emulate the success he had had in collaborating with the French in Nagisa Ōshima's "In the Realm of the Senses" (1976).The story, dealing with a Japanese man in Germany and his obsessive sexual relationship with a German woman during Hitler's rise to power, also seemed to echo Ōshima's film.