猛禽小队和哈莉奎茵

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.

霍顿（金·凯瑞 Jim Carrey 配音）是一头大象，无忧无虑的生活在丛林里面，每天都很快乐。但是，突然有一天，它的一个惊人发现彻底改变了它的生活。它发现，在一粒浮尘上有细微的声音传出来，经过仔细辨认，原来在浮尘上有一个“无名镇”因一颗果实的撞击而脱离的原来的地方，进而被一颗苜蓿花粉带着到处游荡。“无名镇”上的居民急切希望能有一个稳定的地方继续生活，进而向外界发出了求救信号。但是，虽然霍顿对这一切深信不已，当它将自己知道的一切告诉身边的朋友时，却发现没有一个人相信它，反而认为它疯了。为了拯救“无名镇”霍顿备受大家的嘲笑，顶着“幻想症患者”的恶名，不顾一切的想将“无名镇”送回到属于他们的世界里。

十年前，三流小说家中田修一（清水紘治 饰）怀疑妻子和出版界的好友津野木有染，这件事令他耿耿于怀，夫妻的关系也日趋冷淡。随后的五年里，津野木在出版界风生水起，而中田的妻子却不幸死于一场意外。在此之后，中田将自己的经历写成一本情色小说，从而变得小有名气，而他也选择堕落放荡的生活。原本羞涩内向的他，早已是情人多多的风流男子。情人中有著名的花道老师，有痴迷其作品的读者香枝，也有特立独行的女同性恋麦姬。繁花似锦终有时，喧嚣过后只留下无限的失落和怅然……本片根据吉行淳之介的原著改编，为日活成立七十周年的纪念作品。

空寂无人的旷野，安静的铁路桥梁中央，作者形容憔悴、万念俱灰的汤姆，他双爪托腮，浑身绵软无力，两只眼睛充满血丝。铁路上方的横梁上，站着他一生的死对头，同时也是毕生的挚友杰瑞。杰瑞望着一心求死的汤姆，脸上写满了无助。这一切都是爱情惹的祸，原本汤姆和杰瑞拥有快乐无忧的日子，但是随着性感母猫普丝的出现，汤姆的灵魂便被对方俘获了，他展开狂热的爱情攻势，可是黑猫布奇有钱有势，汤姆在布奇面前就如同小丑一般。没钱的男人（or雄性），注定就没有爱情么？本片由Paul Frees担任画外音，同时也是黑猫布奇（Butch）最后出现的一部短片。