末路惊情

美国的小众独立电影，讲述了便士多店小店员但丁（布莱恩·奥哈罗兰 Brian O'Halloran 饰）郁闷抓狂的一天。过了睡眠质量极差的一晚后，但丁大清早被老板叫去加班。这只是倒霉的一天的起始，接下来，还有更多麻烦事情接踵而至，开店门、喷标语、遇见唠叨的反吸烟人士阻挠店面生意。一个头两个大的但丁，还要和前来店铺的女朋友维罗尼卡（玛丽莲·吉格洛尔蒂 Marilyn Ghigliotti饰）交流性生活经验。结果落得个不欢而散，因为女朋友拥有过的性伴侣数目实在令但丁叹为观止。麻烦事还是一桩接一桩，这时前女友的到来令但丁的心狠狠振作了一下。他的艳遇到了，似乎终于可以扫走霉运。可是，卫生间内的“奇遇”，又摧毁了这件美好的事情。

第一次世界大战期间，回国度假的陆军中尉罗伊（罗伯特·泰勒）在滑铁卢桥上邂逅了舞蹈演员玛拉（费雯·丽），两人彼此倾心，爱情迅速升温。就在两人决定结婚之时，罗伊应招回营地，两人被迫分离。由于错过剧团演出，玛拉被开除，只能和好友相依为命。不久玛拉得知罗伊阵亡的消息，几欲崩溃，备受打击。失去爱情的玛拉感到一切都失去了意义，为了生存，她和好友不得不沦为妓女。然而命运弄人，就在此时玛拉竟然再次遇到了罗伊。虽然为罗伊的生还兴奋不已，玛拉却因自己的失身陷入痛苦之中。感到一切难以挽回的玛拉潸然离开，独自来到两人最初相遇的地点——滑铁卢桥上…

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.

20世纪初的日本，坐落于山形县最上川上游的小山村被积雪掩盖。谷村一家团团围坐，贫苦度日。 7岁女孩阿信不可以进入课堂，反而被父亲作造命令去木材店帮佣。为了不让母亲和奶奶为难，阿信只得和家人分离。 木材店的生活艰苦，阿信吃不饱睡不暖，还被诬陷偷钱，她愤而逃脱，结果在寒风凛冽的山中得到逃脱兵役的猎人俊作的救助。 寒冷的冬天，阿信体会到久违的温暖。只不过好景不长，她终将和俊作哥哥分开。即使短暂回到家中，前方路上还有更多的艰苦和考验等待着这个倔强不服输的小女孩。