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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.

故事开始于1962年的一个早晨，一位名为纸月（吴琴琴 饰）的女孩走进了油麻地小学的校门，成为了这里的转学生，她的到来吸引了校长桑乔（杜源 饰）之子桑桑（曹丹 饰）的注意。为了能够接近纸月，桑桑做了一系列惹人注目的蠢事，最终落得了令人啼笑皆非的下场。学校的文艺汇演即将拉开序幕，美丽的纸月名正言顺的成为了女主角，桑桑本以为自己能够扮演男主角，哪知道这角色被他在班上的死对头班长杜小康（金荣喜 饰）给抢走了。一怒之下，桑桑决定在杜小康他们排演节目的时候捣乱，却没想到自己的恶作剧激怒了父亲桑乔，导致他失去了参加全区小学校会操的资格。

二十世纪初，江西某煤矿。煤矿工人整天受矿主的压榨奴役，却连温饱都顾不上。共产党成立后，雷焕觉（王尚信 饰）被派到矿上，利用办夜校的方式秘密组织工人，以期提高他们反压迫、反剥削的思想觉悟。易老倌（魏鹤龄 饰）几代挖煤，认为受穷就是命，儿子易猛子（王熙岩 饰）则不信邪，要以拳头打天下。猛子和秋英（祝希娟 饰）结婚当天，巷内瓦斯爆炸，矿主不顾井下大批工人未升井，要强行封井口，易猛子奋不顾身与其博斗，怎奈势单力薄被捕。陈工头（张雁 饰）趁机逼秋英还债，秋英无奈，自尽身亡。雷焕觉通过报纸揭露事件真相，矿工群情激愤，王连奎（郑敏 饰）不得已释放易猛子。事实教育了易猛子，工人们只有团结起来才有强大的力量，罢工之火已呈燎原之势......

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.