敌对区域

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.

20世纪60年代，在林彪集团和四人帮煽风点火、别有用心的策划下，祸国殃民的十年动乱隆重拉开序幕。地处偏远的太行山区的农民们，也响应中央的号召轰轰烈烈开始了农业学大寨的运动。青山大队的社员们干劲十足，没日没夜投入水库的修建工程之中。然而山区医疗条件落后，饱受伤病困扰的社员无法发挥十足的干劲，水库修建工作面临流产的严峻局面。偏偏解放前当药铺掌柜的孙天福还自私自利，售卖假药，成为革命道路上有一难以回避的阻碍。热血沸腾的青年社员红雨看在眼里急在心里，于是取得大队党支部书记庆林及老乡们的支持，进入赤脚医生训练班学习。谁知孙天福不愿自己的地盘被一个娃娃夺去，他在大队长二槐的支持下和红雨展开了一连串的明争暗斗，发誓要搞垮搞臭这个不懂事的娃娃……本片根据杨啸的同名小说改编。

故事发生在二十世纪初的一个炎热的夏天，某日，一个哇哇啼哭的婴儿呱呱坠地，父母给他取名为约翰（詹姆斯·穆雷 James Murray 饰），随着时间的推移，约翰渐渐长大，怀揣着对未来的理想和期望，约翰透过时光看到了无比广阔的空间。然而，父亲的死扼杀了约翰的一切希望，约翰的双眼渐渐失去了神采。约翰来到繁华的大都市纽约，在这里寻找新的生活，他成为了一名普通的工人，和成千上万同他境遇相同的人过着日复一日枯燥的生活。某日，一位名叫玛丽（埃莉诺·博德曼 Eleanor Boardman 饰）的美丽姑娘出现在了约翰的身边，他们坠入情网，结婚生子。一晃眼五年过去，约翰已经有了两个孩子，殊不知，悲剧正在前方等待着他。

1930年代，一列北上的囚车上跳下了回乡复仇的仇虎（杨在葆 饰）。当回到家乡，才知仇人焦阎王几年前已死，而曾经的未婚妻金子（刘晓庆 饰）已成了仇人家的儿媳妇。仇虎爱恨交加，不知如何是好。而金子在焦家并没有应得的地位，瞎眼婆婆对她非打既骂，丈夫焦大星则站在母亲一边，仇虎知道详情后，有意帮金子脱离苦海。焦母发现端倪后，加紧了对金子的看管。终于有一天，在金子房中遇见仇虎，而不知就里的焦大星则把仇虎当兄弟。焦母差人叫来民团抓人，情急中仇虎杀死了焦大星，带金子逃入森林，焦母则错杀了睡在炕上的孙子。逃跑路上，仇虎为掩护金子自杀身亡......