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.

第一次世界大战期间，德国政府以漂亮的口号呼吁年轻热情的学生志愿者投身战场保家卫国。一腔热血的德国青年保罗·鲍曼（卢·艾尔斯 Lew Ayres饰）怀着英雄理想投身到一战之中。然而当保罗和他的同学们经过训练后，被派往西线参战时，他们目睹到的却是残酷的饥饿、血腥和死亡。战争的荒谬无情让保罗从迷恋战争到心灰意冷，因伤返乡。可是愚昧的乡民根本不知前线的危急，保罗义愤填膺地向学生陈述战争的无情，西线无战事。他提前结束休假返回前线，在战壕中伸手捕捉一支蝴蝶时，不幸被流弹击中。由好莱坞著名导演刘易斯·迈尔斯通执导的经典反战题材影片《西线无战事》，改编自德国作家雷马克的同名小说。这部堪称电影史上“最伟大的反战电影”之一的影片，一举荣获1930年第3届奥斯卡金像奖最佳影片、最佳导演和最佳编剧提名。导演用简明精练的镜头再现了惨绝人寰的战争实况，也以细腻流畅的手法写活了保罗爱国迷梦的幻灭。影片结尾处保罗捉蝴蝶被子弹击中的镜头，已成为电影史上的经典瞬间。

六和塔之战后，乾隆利用红花会剪除异己，并有力地掌握了朝政大权。红花会总舵主陈家洛因思念霍青桐，只身前往维疆，遇上青桐妹香香公主，两人互相爱慕。深爱家洛的青桐只好将爱深藏心底。家洛返京后，清军重兵进疆，木卓伦被杀，青桐失踪，香香公主被俘献给乾隆。乾隆诱骗家洛劝香香公主服从自己，暗地设计将红花会首领一网打尽。香香公主力助家洛反清大业甘作牺牲，发现阴谋后自杀。乾隆设下埋伏使红花会首领全部罹难，仅家洛一人突围。为复仇，他重返维疆。

商朝末年，邪魅炽盛。九尾妖狐化身绝世美女魅惑商王，帝辛沉湎美色，狂暴倍增，饮酒作乐，屠杀黎民。一时间天怒人怨，静虚宫掌教世尊上承天命，拍出弟子姜子牙等众神仙助力周部落起义，最终推翻商周残暴统治。在此之后，众神归位，而九尾也被抓到静虚宫斩妖台，等候最后的发落。作为行刑者的姜子牙，在关键时刻遭到九尾魅惑，看到了令他内心大为波动的景象。虽然九尾被诛，但他也被世尊发配北海古战场反省修行。一晃数年，姜子牙仍在苦寒之地苦苦冥思。而就在某天，一名狐族女孩出现在北海，而她经与姜子牙当年在幻象中见到的女孩一模一样。为了追索真相，姜子牙不顾一切闯出北海禁地……