故事发生在福建海口镇，林同善（于海 饰）和陈亚珍均生长于武术之家，两家人的关系因此十分淡漠。某日，侵华倭寇绑架了陈亚珍的孩子小毛头，此事恰巧被一位名叫上地完雄（于荣光 饰）的年轻武士撞见，上地完雄来中国，希望能够在这里磨炼技艺，正义感爆棚的他救下了小毛头，却在一场意外中含冤背负了杀人的罪名，只有小毛头一人知晓上地完雄的清白。在南少林寺尚智大师的调解之下，林、陈两家放下恩怨，冰释前嫌。此时正值妈祖节，街道上涌动着游行欢庆的队列。在一片欢乐祥和的气氛下，日本人川岛和矢村正在酝酿着他们的阴谋，他们妄图盗取妈祖像上价值连城的夜明珠。

米娅（蒂芬妮·哈迪什 Tiffany Haddish 饰）和梅尔（萝丝·拜恩 Rose Byrne 饰）认识的时间或许已经有一辈子那么长了，她们都将彼此视为自己终生的挚友，并且合资开了一间化妆品公司，希望能够彼此帮助，双双走向人生的巅峰。然而，商场可不是那么好混的，在经历了几次滑铁卢后，两个女孩不仅要背负沉重的债务，还要面临公司随时都有可能倒闭的危险状况。克莱尔（萨尔玛·海耶克 Salma Hayek 饰）是化妆品行业里臭名昭著的吸血虫，她向两人提出收购她们的公司。虽然收购行为切切实实的缓解了米娅和梅尔的经济危机，却也给两人之间的友谊带来了前所未有的考验。

话说古时有一绝世美女，名唤王月英（张柏芝 饰），她自幼为父亲王承彦（赵本山 饰）抚养长大，集万千宠爱于一身。但是月英痛恨男人的纳妾行为，有纳妾者见一个打一个，名震全城，也令饱受其压制的百姓怨声载道。王承彦早年丧妻，十五年过去，如今也有了再次婚配的念头。月英被逼无奈，提出要求，只要三日之内能找出一个男人说服她便不再干涉男人们的婚姻自由。王父辗转找到聪明绝顶的东方明亮（小沈阳 饰），请其与女儿展开辩论。一番唇枪舌剑，二人离下誓约，东方明亮立志在一年之内只爱月英一人，若能不变心则取月英为妻。正值兵马乱世，在大时代背景下，明亮和月英的心渐渐贴近……

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.