能登半島を走るローカル線の無人駅が舞台。春、ホーム沿いに植えられた１００本近い桜が満開を迎えると、普段、人けのない駅に多くの人がやってくる。桜と海と列車がそろう絶景を楽しみにやってくる親子。夜桜を見て、高校時代の恩師を思い出す男性。毎年変わらぬ桜から、１年の自分の変化を感じる人もいる。地域が衰退していく中でも、地元の人たちが守り続けてきた桜。訪れる人たちは何を感じるのか。３日間、耳を傾ける。

片中展现多本你从未见过的读书机械，都是天才发明家小竹节信亲手制造。但在片中，已分不清读书机械是主人，或是人才是读书机械！

在古代的北海道原本是一遍荒地只有一座监狱里关着一些无期徒刑和即将处死的犯人。监狱长是个行事蛮横又残暴的人，他利用犯人的妻子为了见丈夫一面来赚取不义之财。古代的北海道是一处偏僻又未开发的地方但它却是经商人的必经之路。所以监狱长就利用天时地利开了一家妓院来满足男人的需要，但却也招来了杀生之祸。

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.