战至巅峰

明治十五年，柔道爱好者姿三四郎（藤田进 饰），无意中目睹了门马党与修道馆之战。修道馆馆主矢野本五郎凭借一己之力，以柔道击败门马党众，令姿三四郎心悦诚服，拜其为师。然而，矢野觉得他生性好斗，出尔反尔，有意考验他的耐性。姿三四郎幸得老僧的 指点，抱树入水沉溺多日，终于领悟师傅教诲。在老师的调教下，姿三四郎的柔道突飞猛进，对门马党一战成名。此时，一位不速之客前来挑衅，姿三四郎正欲挺身而出，却被对方拒绝，相约后会有期。此后，姿三四郎遇到了美女小夜（轰夕起子 饰）并坠入爱河，却没想到比武对手竟是她的父亲——柔术大师村井（志村乔 饰）……

故事发生在人猿的全球革命和人类之间的残酷核战争十年后，凯撒必须保护人猿和人类两方的幸存者免受邪恶人类和人猿好战派系的威胁……

本片改编自日本作家夏目漱石的同名小说。淋漓尽致地反映了二十世纪初，日本中小资产阶级的思想和生活，尖锐地揭露和批判了明治“文明开化”的资本主义社会。 这部作品是以一位穷教师家的猫为主人公，以这只被拟人化的猫的视角来观察人类的心理。这是一只善于思索、有见识、富有正义感又具有文人气质、但至死也没有学会捕捉老鼠的猫。

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.