4400第二季

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.

故事的两位男主角，是年轻有为的厨师伊万(阿曼多·埃斯皮蒂亚饰)，和颇具魅力的出柜教师格拉多(克里斯蒂安·巴斯克斯饰)，在墨西哥意外邂逅之后，两人一拍即合展开一段冒险旅程，进而拉开跨越数十年的史诗爱情故事的序幕。

東京郊外にある大型霊園が舞台。ここには石のお墓に混じって、桜の樹木葬が点在している。「自然に還りたい」という故人の思いを受け、全国に広がる樹木葬。春、桜が咲く季節に大勢の人がお参りにやってくる。長年、苦労をともにした妻に会いに、毎週のように足を運ぶ男性。桜の咲く時期、父親の墓参りに顔を合わせるという兄弟。若くして夫を亡くした女性は、夫が大好きだったビールを片手に桜に語りかける。

儿子大了要成亲女儿大了要出嫁，这本来是天经地义的好事，可这些年来，不知从哪兴起了一股奇怪的彩礼风，要高价大拍卖，什么“六条腿”、“七机部”的，甚至连一个闺女长有双眼皮，也成了索取丰厚彩礼的筹码，眼看着一出出喜剧变成了悲剧。