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.

效力于美国国防情报局的特工亨利·布罗根（威尔·史密斯 Will Smith 饰）是一名顶尖狙击手，在他的职业生涯中，曾奉命扫除许多威胁国家安全的恐怖分子。执行任务时的他下手果断，毫不迟疑。可是最后一次任务险些失手，却让他产生了动摇，进而提出解甲归田。怎奈放下屠刀的他，偶 然听到了一个有关国家机密的大事，随即便招来杀人之祸。在躲过政府第一次围剿之后，他偕同因监视自己而意外被卷入其中的女特工丹妮（玛丽·伊丽莎白·温斯特德 Mary Elizabeth Winstead 饰）展开逃亡，投奔昔日战友巴伦（本尼迪克特·王 Benedict Wong 饰）。未曾想新的杀手阴魂不散，尾随而至。更令亨利惊讶的是，追杀他的竟是年轻了23岁的另一个自己……

警车上，落网的连续杀人犯槚津严（绪形拳 饰）神态轻松，并在后来的审讯中拒不交代杀死职员柴田与马场的经过……槚津严出身于信奉天主教的渔民家庭，由于宗教歧视，严家的小船被没收，年幼的严试图反抗却被父亲制止，由此父亲丧失了在严心目中的地位。青年严因偷窃美军设备出狱后与加津子奉子成婚，然而很快又因诈骗入狱。父亲为阻止加津子离婚登门拜访，谁知两人却发生了不伦的关系，再次出狱的严不齿妻子与父亲所为，离家出走，从此开始了伴随杀人与诈骗的流浪旅程。严乔装大学教授与旅馆中的暗娼交好，间歇时仍然犯下累累罪行，而此时与他共居的母子二人，并不知晓身边人是日本知名的通缉犯……本片获1979年日本《电影旬报》十佳电影第一名。

六名警校女菜鸟在一场淘汰赛测试中因事态超出控制拒绝服从命令而失去了进入精英团队的资格，在她们心灰意冷离开警校时，一位神秘长官突然出现，通知她们正式成为“霸王花”团队——二十五年前因任务失败而惨遭解散的组织，目前正在寻求新鲜力量重振雄风。交给她们的第一个任务就是抓住臭名昭著外号“总统”的恐怖分子，此人也是导致“霸王花”组织25年前解散的罪魁祸首。他掳走韩国的细菌专家，研究出一个透过人体高效传播的新型病毒。看似危险重重可急切想成为真正警察的六名姑娘还是毫不犹豫的接受了这一场不知生死的任务……