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.

First in the series. The female ninjas have to protect their master's unborn baby from enemies. They use all kinds of sexual tricks to get the job done.

娇娇是个凡事都要靠妈妈的小懒虫。一天，她在饭桌上挑三拣四时，妈妈半带埋怨半带担心地问她长大了怎么办，不想她立刻申辩说自己早已长大，难道还会变小，妈妈听完觉得好笑又好气，说变小更麻烦。娇娇趁妈妈不注意将饭菜喂了猫猫狗狗后，立在饭桌旁发呆，不一会进入了梦乡。梦里，娇娇变成了好小好小的人儿来到动物王国，起初小动物们都拿她当可人儿来对待，可是由于她过惯了衣来伸手饭来张口的日子，什么都做不来，慢慢地大伙都对她摇头又叹气。这时，发生了一件危险的事。

本片为哈萨克斯坦俄语片，是韩国已故导演金基德生前完成的最后作品。导演在这部电影中有别以往的关注了女性在社会中普遍存在的性别问题，女主人公的不同精神面与家庭成员、交往男性的反复接触、对抗将原本分裂的两面逐渐拉近到一个能互相理解、重叠的层级，最终达成“溶解”，两位女性主演都有较为出色的表现，值得观赏与玩味。（華堅馮力士）