荔枝影院

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.

A面：在某次联谊会上，身体肥胖且其貌不扬的大学生铃木夕树邂逅了美丽女孩茧子（前田敦子 饰）。他帮对方解围，对方似乎也对他有了好感。在此后的日子里，两人见面的次数增多，在茧子的鼓励和建议下，铃木尝试着改变自己的造型，力争成为女孩心目中理想的男性。那一年的圣诞节，他们的爱情走向顶点。B面：大学毕业后，铃木进入职场，并按照公司的安排前往东京进行深造，因此不得不和茧子经历远距离的恋爱。起初一切还好，但随着时间的流逝，两人之间逐渐出现隔阂，而远在东京的铃木又邂逅了美丽的女同事美弥子（木村文乃 饰），爱情的天平进一步倾斜……本片根据乾胡桃的同名原作改编。

雅树（小野昌彦 饰）性格孤僻，难于沟通，在棒球队中不懂配合，即使输掉比赛也如同什么事没发生过一样。某日在加油站打工时，雅树与黑帮大友组成员金井（小泽仁志 饰）发生矛盾，金井假装手臂骨折，索取巨额赔偿。Incruz酒吧老板是雅树所在球队的球迷，也曾是大友组成员。他代球队前去交涉，未果。雅树等人为对抗黑帮，前往冲绳购买武器。在那里偶遇因挥霍组里资金而被殴打的小混混上原（北野武 饰），几人恳求其搞来武器，后者正为资金发愁，欣然同意。得到武器的雅树一众回到东京，开始对大友组的报复，他们最终能否成功？

故事讲述了一位老练的民主党战略家(卡瑞尔饰)在威斯康星州的一座右翼小镇，帮助一位退休的老将竞选市长。