雇佣兵33

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.

柳生源三郎（泽村国太郎 饰）到道场作上门女婿，哥哥对马守（坂东胜太郎 饰）将家传的猴壶送给弟弟作“嫁妆”。源三郎和对马守都不知道，这看似破破烂烂、毫不起眼的猴壶内竟隐藏着百万两银子的秘密。得知真相的对马守急忙派人索要，事感蹊跷的源三郎也渐渐知晓内中原委。然猴壶却被妻子卖给了收破烂的人。猴壶辗转到了孤儿安吉（宗春太郎 饰）手中，他因父亲遭流氓杀害而被射箭场收留，得到女主人阿藤（喜代三 饰）和独臂独眼剑客丹下左膳（大河内传次郎 饰）的照顾。源三郎寻找猴壶途中，偶遇射箭场的美丽少女，于是从此以寻找猴壶为借口，流连射箭场中，更与丹下左膳成为好友……

大導演胡金銓早年傑作，改編自《警世通言》之〈玉堂春落難逢夫〉。故事講述吏部尚書幼子王金龍（趙雷）與名妓蘇三（樂蒂）真情相愛，無奈床頭金盡，被趕出富春院。其後蘇三被老鴇（紅薇）暗賣予富戶沈燕林（楊志卿）為妾，卻被沈妻皮氏（高寶樹）誣告毒殺親夫，判以死罪。此時金龍已考取功名，官封八府巡按，為救蘇三，決意開堂覆審……本片由「古典美人」樂蒂飾女主角蘇三，配合胡金銓一絲不苟的製作，乃黃梅調片不朽的經典。

芝芝天生是个苦命女，丈夫发迹后不久，便被她克死。她先后下嫁短命丈夫苏大忠，Joe，High Lo及阿B，四短暂婚姻，谱出四个搞笑情缘。