澳大利亚墨尔本，华裔厨师积奇（成龙 饰）是当地小有名气的人物，定期在电视上主持烹饪节目。毒枭金·卡洛（Richard Norton 饰）集团颇有势力，金·卡洛本人残暴冷酷，清除了敌对帮派的卧底之后率众和对方在仓库大打出手，而枪战全过程被记者戴安娜（Gabrielle Fitzpatrick 饰）用摄影机记录。在躲避贩毒集团追逐的路上，戴安娜巧遇积奇，后者仗义出手为她引开歹徒，孰料两人分手时戴安娜错将积奇的节目录像带当做证据带走。戴安娜的住处很快被贩毒集团找到，遍搜不获的歹徒们开始将目标转向积奇。积奇女友美琪（李婷宜 饰）远道来访，特意参加了积奇的节目录制，贩毒集团在录制现场围捕积奇，经过一番街头苦战，积奇终于脱险。黄雀在后的金·卡洛敌对帮派带走了美琪，要挟积奇用录像带换人，一时间，围绕着录像带，积奇、警方、以及两个犯罪集团陷入了混乱的争夺战。

取材自新文化運動先驅李叔同的年輕事跡。滿清末年國力衰弱，遭列強宰割。1905年，日本與俄羅斯兩大強權為爭中國領土，在東北戰場開打，知識份子忿忿不平。同年，熱衷文藝的上海富家公子厭倦紛擾，赴東京留學，欲尋淨土潛心精進藝術。他學畫、習樂、演新劇，並與日本女子相戀，異鄉成了溫柔鄉。然而，憤青好友力勸其加入革命黨，時局壓力亦步步迫近。亂世當前，誰能置身事外？

身体虚弱的朴老师（吴美熙饰）退休后隐居在远离人烟的海边，一年前收留的女学生美子（徐瑛姬饰）提议举行一个同学聚会，让老师开心一下。前来聚会的学生形迹怪异：将要结婚的班长世浩（余贤秀饰）和副班长恩英、身材火爆的顺姬（李智贤饰）、跛脚的达峰、帅气的明浩等来到了老师面前，却因为曾经都被朴老师伤害过而怨气冲天，正阳小时候母亲因为自己被记过去找老师理论时被车撞死而显得阴阳怪气。这夜，在纷纷控诉过老师对自己的伤害后，这群学生接二连三被穿着正阳的衣服戴着兔子面具的人杀死，只有朴老师与奋力保护她的美子幸存。警察在调查时发现朴老师当年并没有一个叫美子的学生，恐怖渐生。到底是谁的阴暗记忆毁了这一切？事实的真相与表面上看到的大相径庭。

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.