暴君们的团宠小公主

故事发生在地处偏远的贫穷山村之中，少女红杏（孔琳 饰）还未真正迎来自己的美好青春年华，便被两个哥哥李平娃（赵军 饰）和李狗娃（解衍 饰）以“换亲”的方式许配给了村里的万元户张强国（龚朝辉 饰）。新婚之夜，张强国指责红杏并非处女之身，将她退了回去，并且强行带走了作为交换的姐姐。愤怒的李平娃将红杏暴打一顿，却问不出个所以然了。平日里，小学教师李明光（胡亚捷 饰）和红杏交往甚密，李平娃觉得一定是这个衣冠禽兽夺走了红杏的贞洁，于是发出了“杀人预告”。然而，由于李平娃兄弟两人平日里懦弱无能，所以并没有村民相信他们会真的将威胁付诸于行动，悲剧就这样发生了。

夜幕之中，南宫世家和铁老大（高雄 饰）之间展开了血战。就在南宫不敌对手陷入性命攸关的存亡之际时，楚留香（郑少秋 饰）现身了，救了南宫一命。之后，南宫和铁老大双双死于非命，为了解开案件背后的谜团，楚留香暗地里开始了调查。一次偶然中，楚留香邂逅了名为苏苏（林青霞 饰）的女子，她即将被作为祭品献祭给河神。楚留香不忍心看见苏苏年纪轻轻就香消玉损，救下了她。之后，一直将楚留香视为眼中钉的朗格斯（陆一婵 饰）掳走了胡铁花（陆一龙 饰）、宋甜儿（郑学琳 饰）和李红袖（张海伦 饰），她希望能够就此引出神出鬼没的楚留香，将他一举铲除。

今回は、数万円台から結婚式を挙げられる式場が舞台。格安・小規模・短期間がウリで、毎日3,40組のカップルが相談にやってくる。「2度目はシンプルに」と語る再婚同士の40代カップル。若い頃に式を挙げられず、子どもたちからプレゼントされたという60代の夫婦。病気がちな父親にドレス姿を見せるため、1か月で式を挙げたいというカップル。さまざまな人生の小さなウエディングストーリーを見つめる。

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.