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.

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脱衣舞女切丽（罗丝·迈格温饰）边跳钢管舞边流泪，她厌倦并想着逃离这样的生活，一切烂透了。另一边，附近军事基地在研发一种药物的过程中发生事故，病毒气体弥漫出来，附近周围的人们变成了僵尸，而切丽那赖以为生、修长惹火的右腿也被僵尸扯了下来。还好，她身边还有男友雷（弗莱迪·罗瑞格兹饰）的存在。医院被血洗，警察们无力阻挡僵尸的进攻。雷和其他幸存的人们汇集到小店，组成武装部队，展开与僵尸对抗的血战中。雷甚至给切丽装上一只假肢，而这只假肢其实是一把超强武器，可以当机关枪也可以当迫击炮。于是，切丽成为猎杀僵尸的超级女斗士。