The Deserted Archipelago was my first independently directed and produced film. The film won the Grand Prix at the Nyon International Film Festival and garnered considerable attention both overseas and in Japan. The film follows an extremely simple story of a plain boy who matures into manhood while constantly manipulated by nuns. But woven into this narrative are my own experiences and the history of postwar Japan as well as a series of fantasies. The result is a multifaceted and multilayered objet, the birth of a newly sur-realistic filmmaking. On August 15th, the day the war ended, I was in the third year of primary school. That day, when the reality that I had known turned completely upside down, I was saddled with the trauma of no longer being able to believe in anything. Searching here and there for some kind of spiritual salvation, I finally found the existentialism of Albert Camus. From there, I was able to build up my own kind of existentialism and this film is best understood as based in that “Kanai Katsu Existentialism.” The film was praised by European film scholars Max Tessier and Tony Rayns and was screened as part of “Eiga: 25 Years of Japanese Film,” a special program at the 1984 Edinburgh International Film Festival.
千年一度的春天到来,在地球担任女王的雪野弥生(潘惠子 配音)接到了来自拉美达路的消息,新的女王即将到来取代她的位置。虽然思念相隔已有千年之久的恋人,然而弥生不愿人类受到异星人的钳制,她拒绝了母星的指令。在此之后,拉美达路出现异状,该星球正以无可挽回的速度向地球重来,在180天后即将与这颗蓝色星球相撞。雨森博士和雨森始(户田惠子 配音)从古老的埃及文献中找到关于千年女王的记载,这令他们燃起拯救世界的希望。伴随着拉美达路的接近,星球上的沉睡者相继醒来。是毁灭,还是新生,冲撞在即,每个人都面临着最严峻的选择。本片根据科幻漫画家松本零士的同名原作改编。