大导演岳枫又一得意之作，描述女主角方盈饰演之文兰，围绕着三位英俊小生王羽、乔庄及张冲之间，发展出一段感人肺腑之四角爱情关系。

编 剧： 廖辉英 Huiying Liao 侯孝贤 Hsiaohsien Hou闽南人用“油麻菜籽”比喻女人的命 运，说她们像油麻菜籽一样随风飘散 ，落到哪里长到哪里。秀琴出身于台 湾有钱人家，是娇生惯养的小姐，嫁 给李世俊后却经常遭到丈夫的冷落和 打骂。李世俊在外玩女人，还将她的 嫁妆拿出去卖钱挥霍。她只能忍气吞 声，操持家务，生儿育女。在家中， 儿子阿雄得到父亲的娇惯，吃喝、玩 耍、不干活。女儿阿惠却得不到父亲 的怜爱。一次，丈夫引诱别人妻子的 丑事败露，秀琴变卖全部家当，为其 平息纠纷。后来全家迁到台北，另谋 生路。自此， 夫妻在家里的地位颠 倒了过来，秀琴成了家庭的主宰。但 她同样重男轻女，儿子受到纵容，阿 惠虽联考时成绩优秀，仍要做许多家 务活计。这时，父亲对阿惠的态度变 好，给予她许多疼爱。在台北经过一 段困窘的生活，家境逐渐好转。秀琴 变得讲究衣饰打扮，追求享乐。她对 阿惠交男朋友进行干涉，不让女儿嫁 给她所爱的恋人沈立伟。但大学毕业 的阿惠，不再接受像油麻菜籽一样的 命运安排，终于同相爱的立伟结为夫 妻。最终，秀琴承认了阿惠的选择。

夢想進入美術學校的優子，利用暑假到外地進修短期繪畫課，因而借住母親知世的老友青葉春子家中，認識了春子的兒子利久、春子的朋友明子及其男友空夫。雖家庭成員不太尋常，但青葉家餐桌上的美食佳餚，使他們親如一家人。知世是位才華洋溢的電視知名主廚，優子亟欲證明自己也是特別的，才能擺脫母親的陰影。她很快地就在美術學校結交了新朋友，並邂逅心儀的男生。她和利久都喜歡同一個獨立樂團，甚至加入他的業餘樂團。在探索自我價值及未來的同時，也得知春子和母親因長久的心結已失聯20年。在優子的影響下，春子鼓起勇氣前去拜訪老友知世並重修舊好⋯⋯。新銳導演松本壯史，以美食、音樂、友情和愛情，交織出一則清新脫俗的夏日成長篇章。由西田尚美主演，以兩代之間的關係對比出人際之間共通的微妙情感，如同一桌 精心烹煮的美味餐點，各種人生滋味都盡嚐在心中。

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.