妈妈的特殊职业

佛烈到印尼一小岛寻找石油，途中遇偷渡客积斯高与沉船获救的戴安。戴安被士人捉去祭神，原来士人膜拜的金刚是一头身高十丈的大猩猩。金刚对戴安起了怜惜之心，但佛烈却将金刚迷倒，送到纽约展览。金刚醒来却找寻戴安，大闹纽约。

母親一手拉扯著三個孩子，欲努力經營好亡夫留下的乾洗店，卻困難重重。電影以長女的視點帶出劇情，講述家庭的變遷。

警员阿海（刘青云 饰）事业上精明能干，但与妻子（李若彤 饰）的关系十分恶劣，妻子更怀上了别人的孩子，婚姻濒临破裂。阿海在与歹徒搏斗的时候脑部中枪，自此失去了味觉。妻子全力照顾，两人的关系也开始转好。没想到该歹徒逃脱成功，并绑架了阿海的妻子要挟阿海出现，在枪林弹雨中与歹徒时，阿海才发现自己一生中最爱的人还是自己的妻子。歹徒挟持着妻子，并告诉阿海房间内已充满了煤气，只要阿海开枪便会爆炸，事实上阿海已经失去了味觉……

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.