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.
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文革末期，各种媒体充斥极左言论，谎话连篇累牍，刚从干校调回报社的傅彬（李志舆 饰）为此十分苦恼。同事李记者（史久峰 饰）叮嘱他凡事得过且过，不要太认真，但记者的良心时时折磨着傅彬。一天，他奉报社宋书记（袁岳 饰）之命，与李记者去医学院采访，亲眼目睹了非常荒唐的一幕，内心 受到极大剌激。无奈中，他去请教因说真话差点被逼疯的老恩师（乔奇 饰）。回到家中，他与妻子共同回忆起初恋时节，人与人之间纯洁诚实的生活。他决定找宋书记，求他不要让自己写骗人的文章，妻子怕他惹事，好言相劝，他忍不住打了妻子一记耳光。正直的傅彬由于说出真话，被捕入狱，但他坚信，国家不会永远这样下去......