第38届香港电影金像奖是为表彰表扬2018年度杰出电影所颁发的奖项，表扬电影从业员的成就，促进专业发展和推动电影文化，颁奖典礼订预于2019年4月在香港文化中心举行，由方力申及邓丽欣担任主持人。第38届香港电影金像奖将于2019年2月下午在香港文化中心四楼举行记者招待会，由第37届香港电影金像奖最佳男主角古天乐及最佳男配角姜皓文揭晓本年度入围名单。

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.

1940年代初，浙东某山村的童养媳竺春花（谢芳）因不堪虐待逃入某个越剧戏班，与教戏师傅的女儿邢月红（曹银娣）结为姐妹。不久，攻旦的春花和习生的月红双双成为戏班台柱。戏班在绍兴演出时，当地豪绅企图凌辱月红，为掩护她，春花被人绑在桥头示众，邢师傅也被打致死，临终前，邢师傅嘱附两人要“认认真真唱戏，清清白白做人”。戏班到上海后很快唱红，戏院唐经理想借上演淫秽剧目捞取更多银子，被春花严词拒绝，但月红却贪慕虚荣堕落成为唐经理的玩物，姐妹因此反目，但两人的情分并没到此终结。

重案组沙展马军（甄子丹 饰）致力抓拿犯罪分子，身手不凡的他由于抓贼心切常常出手过重。警方一直搜集越南帮兄弟阿渣（吕良伟 饰）、Tony（邹兆龙 饰）、阿虎（行宇 饰）的犯罪证据，于是派出了华生（古天乐 饰）以卧底的身份潜入他们之间。三兄弟为人心狠手辣，想铲除掉眼中钉阿山。阿渣被抓后，Tony也识破了华生的真实身份，要将华生以及其他证人通通杀掉，救出大哥。华生女友秋堤（范冰冰 饰）被挟持，华生不得不放弃指证阿渣。华生与女友都抓走当人质，马军也带着阿渣去营救华生。