CUCK is a gripping fly-on-the wall character study and psychosexual thriller tracking an isolated and lonely young man as he is indoctrinated into the online echo chambers of Alt-Right ideology and hate. Touching on several topical nerves, CUCK gives a raw, unforgiving glimpse into a dark world that hides in plain sight.

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.

新搬来的公寓这家人是母亲惠子（You饰）带着四个孩子：明（柳乐优弥饰）、京子、茂、雪。但母亲却得对周围的人们撒谎说丈夫去海外工作，自己与长子两个人在一起生活。事实是其它三名弟妹是“黑孩子”，因为四个孩子有着各自不同的父亲。他们一直呆在家中，没有去学校上学。在母亲去百货商店工作时，年纪尚小的明就在家中代替母亲行使家长的职责。突然有一天母亲不见了，她把手中仅有的20万日元现金和一张短短的便条留给了孩子们，把弟妹托付给明看管后，就悄然地离家出走。无亲无故，对外面几乎一无所知的四个孩子们，要开始面对新的生活，那实在不是件容易的事情……

小铃（能年玲奈 配音）是一个整日里慢慢腾腾迷迷糊糊的姑娘，最大的爱好就是画画。眼看着到了嫁人的年纪，在父母的安排下，小铃来到了吴市，嫁给了名为北条周作（细谷佳正 配音）的男子，成为了北条家的媳妇。径子（尾身美词 配音）是周作的姐姐，带着女儿晴美（稻叶菜月 配音）住回了娘家。和贤惠老实的小铃不同，径子性格张扬而泼辣，虽然她常常对唯唯诺诺的小铃感到不满，但两人之间的感情其实十分要好。战争开始了，越来越多的战斗机飞过天空，刺耳的防空警报声常常划破夜晚的宁静，战争的阴影一点一点的覆盖着北条一家人的生活。在一场空袭中，晴美不幸遇难，小铃亦失去了右手再也无法作画，然而，在如此残酷的时局下，一家人依然没有放弃对生存的渴望。