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1850年，南太平洋，美国公证人亚当·尤因（吉姆·斯特吉斯 Jim Sturgess 饰）在船上被不明寄生虫病折磨，他用日记记录下自己所见所闻；1931年，苏格兰，落魄青年罗伯特·弗罗比舍（本·卫肖 Ben Whishaw 饰）为音乐大师记录曲谱，受到半本旅行日记的启发创作出了恢宏壮阔的《云图六重奏》；1975年，美国加州，小报记者路易莎·雷（哈莉·贝瑞 Halle Berry 饰）冒着生命危险调查一桩核电站丑闻，在老唱片店她被一首不知名的乐章打动；2012年，英国伦敦，被囚禁在养老院的出版商蒂莫西·卡文迪什（吉姆·布劳德本特 Jim Broadbent 饰）揣着一叠由女记者写成的纪实文学，打算将自己的“越狱经历”拍成电影；乌托邦未来，首尔，餐厅服务员克隆人星美-451（裴斗娜 Doona Bae 饰）开始形成自我意识和反抗人类，她在人类图书馆看了一部飞跃老人院的电影；文明毁灭后的未来，夏威夷，牧羊土着扎克里（汤姆·汉克斯 Tom Hanks 饰）对高科技文明的先知心怀敌意，他的部落唯一相信的女神叫星美……不同的人物、场景和事件在时空中更迭变幻，不变的是每个主角身上都带有彗星形状的胎记。它像亘古灵魂的烙印，将人性中的反抗精神代代延续，最终织成一幅浩瀚璀璨的云图。

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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.