前身是皇軍軍港的吳港，戰後成為船塢工人的生活煉獄。在資本家剝削和枯燥生活的雙重煎熬下，躁動的年輕生命，一頭栽進暴力漩渦，延擱成長，終日在打鬥、賭博、酗酒中尋找暫時的麻醉。吉田喜重通過工頭之眼，對不合理的社會現實作出欲迎還拒的批判，被視為日本新浪潮代表作之一。香山美子飾演純真的酒館女待，同情工人卻慘被強姦，正與負的能量，在大時代中比拼互滲，可有超越對與錯，是與非的位置？片末火車站送別一場，在家和社會之間，吉田喜重作出了左翼的選擇。One of the key films ushering in the Shochiku "New Wave" era, this raw tale of migrant laborers at a post-war naval base simmers with youthful outrage. Responsible shipyard worker Shimazaki (Hayakawa) is put in charge of new recruits from Osaka. The immature gang quickly finds trouble drinking, gambling, and fighting, and eventually trespassing against what Shimazaki holds most dear - local bargirl Nobu. Revenge, honor, and loyalty are all called into question. Yoshida's groundbreaking film portrayed real social issues in an unromantic light, and paved the way for all the cinematic "roughs" to come.- SummerIFF 2007

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.

杰西（乔什·哈切森 Josh Hutcherson 饰）是个过得不怎么快乐的孩子。他在学校里受同学欺负，在家中又无法得到父母的宠爱。只有两个人能为他的童年带来亮光——一个是音乐老师，另一个便是刚转校来到班上的莱斯利（安娜索菲亚·罗伯 Annasophia Robb 饰）。莱斯利以她独特的方式感染了生活暗淡的杰西，慢慢打开了他的生活的另一扇窗。在河的另一边，他们要建造一个叫做“特雷比西亚”的王国，他们在树上打造一个屋子，王国的成员有妖怪、马蜂军团、松鼠和秃鹰。这个幻想的天地创造了他们每天放学后最好的时光。然而，童话毕竟太虚幻，杰西和莱斯利的特雷比西亚世界，迎来了风雨飘摇的一天……

在一座古老的阴森恐怖的坟场中，经常发生一些莫名其妙的惨案，令人百思不得其解。这天，麦克（A.麦克?鲍德温_A. Michael Baldwin 饰）最好的朋友不幸也在坟场中遇害了。伤心欲绝的麦克发誓一定要为朋友报仇，于是他决定深夜前往坟场找出朋友遇害的秘密。于是这天夜里，麦克偷偷潜进了坟场。半夜过后，麦克看到了令人毛骨悚然的一幕，这个古老的坟场里竟然居住着大量的丧尸，他们都以食人为乐！惊慌不已的麦克甚至以为自己看了幻象！