幸福3颗星

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.

第八代将军吉宗执政之时。相马藩士丹下左马之介奉命杀死自己的密友、藩内奸细神岛小十郎，事后，左马之介又遭暗算，右眼受伤、右臂被斩……一天，柳生藩受到命令，承担修复日光东照宫的任务。这实际上是将军身边的臣子愚乐老人企图吞掉柳生藩的奸计。焦急不已的藩主对马守得知家中有一个藏有黄金一百万两的宝罐，有了它定能顺利动工。而此罐在对马守的弟弟源三郎处，在护罐回藩的路上，对马守的人马遭遇愚乐手下刺客的袭击。意外知晓宝罐秘密的小偷与吉和阿藤，趁乱得手。就在这时，一名身着白衣自称是丹下左膳的独眼独臂浪人，突然现身，并和与吉、阿藤，一块带着宝罐消失了。愚乐得知后，命对马守必须带着宝罐出席五日后举行的宽永寺院大茶会。源三郎立即派人寻找宝罐。另一边，左膳带着一个假罐子，找到愚乐，并换回一百两钱。这时，左膳在还是左马之介时候的恋人萩乃，闻讯找上门来，她的出现引起了阿藤的嫉妒。于是，她带上真的宝罐，去找愚乐。左膳赶去时，与吉和阿藤被当作人质捉拿，危机关头，被源三郎救下。左膳答应源三郎，一定会赶在茶会举行当天拿回宝罐。不久，已是宽永寺院大茶会之日，左膳在与吉和阿藤的帮助下，杀出一条血路，并登上五重塔，大声戳穿了愚乐老人的计谋。大冈越前守听罢，与左膳约定，只要他离开江户，就宽恕与吉和阿藤。至此，愚乐机关算尽终自灭，柳生藩也度过了危难……左膳则大步朝着江户城外走去。

佘太君亲率众将出征边关，誓死破除天门阵。领军元帅的人选迟迟未定，杨八妹和穆桂英，一个精通兵法、一个善于布阵，一个征战边关多年深得将士信赖，一个统领穆柯寨拥有帅才之能，老太君权衡利弊最终决定任命穆桂英为三军统帅。众人对此皆表示不解，对桂英的能力缺乏信任。八妹亦心有所想，经过与太君长谈之后，她承诺会全力辅佐桂英，助其树立威信。　　对战天门阵，穆桂英领军有方，初战告捷。而杨八妹因故未遵号令及时撤回，被桂英依军法责罚守营三日，宗宝出面劝阻也被罚二十军棍。此举众人虽心存异议，却也震动于桂英的威严无私，八妹和太君则暗暗佩服桂英的治军严格。　　任道安设下毒计，利用姜翠萍将杨宗宝引入死阵，宗宝誓死不屈遭万箭穿心，惨死于天门阵。杨家上下悲痛万分，誓杀任道安以报绝后之仇。桂英终日思念宗宝，要追随亡夫而去，被八妹在崖边救下。七娘诊治之中惊喜地发现桂英已怀有身孕，这让杨家众人在悲痛之中重新看到了希望。桂英振作精神，为了国恨家仇要与辽军战斗到底。　　程刚潜心研究出新的破阵之法，却被姜翠萍盗走布阵图为任道安所用。杨家众人进入天门阵以降龙木合力破阵，却不知此乃任道安利用姜翠萍设下的圈套。得知真相后，程刚赶入阵内舍命相救，众人及时撤离了险境，程刚身受重伤生死难卜。姜翠萍终于醒悟自己一直被任道安所利用，却已为时晚矣。天门阵不破不立，此消彼长，任道安借杨家将及降龙木的合力，已将天门阵威力提升至无上境界。摆在杨门女将面前的是一个拥有摧毁众生之力的魔阵，穆桂英要破天门阵任重道远。

28岁的炼油厂电力工程师河合让治（小泽昭一 饰）没有任何不良嗜好，被同僚当作怪物一样的君子，但他朴素木讷的外表下却隐藏着鲜为人知的秘密。来自乡下的河合一心寻找一位美丽出色的女人为妻，而现今社会的浮华以及自己并不出色的资质使这个愿望显得遥不可及。奇妙的机缘不期而至，河合偶遇浅草咖啡厅老板娘15岁的女儿直美（安田道代 饰）。他和老板娘签下协定，将直美带回家中进行文化、礼仪等方面的教育，希望亲手将她培养成自己的理想配偶。青春年少的直美任性、调皮，河合则不惜一切代价也要满足她的需求。但这种危险关系能够持续多久呢？