1978年台湾拍摄明朝左丞相胡惟庸意图叛国，为阻止胡奸计，烈士们率领六十名少林弟子以死开路，意图突破锦衣卫重围，接近鑾驾。洪武十三年，胡惟庸终以叛国罪，碎磔於市。一百七十九位忠义烈士蒙圣恩，御赐「一代忠良」金匾，以奖忠荐。

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年代日本帝国主义统治下的朝鲜京城，那是一个兵慌马乱，为了生存，不要说民族的名字，就连自己的名字也可以更改的年代。驻扎在当地的日本军部为了得到被誉为新罗历史千年象征的石窟庵本尊佛像眉间的价值一千亿韩元（8.2亿人民币）的超级钻石“千年之光”而费尽心思，作为最高首领的总监经过多年的努力终于将之收于囊中，但突然在钻石上得到天皇灭亡的不祥预示，于是下令将钻石转移到日本。在此之前由山田中尉（金秀玄饰）负责举行欢送会。1945年5月的某夜，欢送会上，被日方视为心肝宝贝的“千年之光”却被不知名的女盗贼偷去了，整个城市一片哗然，为了找回巨钻，日军杀害了许多无辜的平民。人人“谈钻色变”。……华丽的酒吧外贴着悬赏捉拿蒙面盗贼“海棠花”的告示，里面歌舞升平，爵士乐歌女春子（李宝英饰）用同样迷人嗓音和身段吸引住在场的男人们，而在严防的阵线下依然能巧取钻石的“海棠花”正是她！每晚在唱最后一首歌时必定来到捧场的是绅士男人金奉九（朴勇宇饰），表面上是沉溺于花花世界的贵公子，实际上是有着千种面具，最狡猾的文物欺诈师。追查海棠花踪影的奉久，紧咬着海棠花不放的日军，对春子和奉久的身份渐渐起疑心的山田，还有其他各怀鬼胎的钻石的睽违者，上演着一场惊心动魄的野心战争！

埃及城市哈姆纳塔是历代法老墓地，相传此处拥有法老留下的大量珍奇异宝，源源不断的人前往掘金，但却生还者寥寥。哈姆纳塔因此成为谜样的所在，获名“亡灵之城”。图书管理员伊芙琳（Rachel Weisz 瑞切尔·薇茨饰）偶然得到一张哈姆纳塔的地图，大为兴奋的她决定和哥哥一起去那儿考古，他们找到曾经的幸存者欧康诺（Brendan Fraser 布兰登·弗雷泽饰），三人结伴前往。一段惊险旅途后，伊芙琳一行与其他人终于抵达哈姆纳塔，可是最恐怖的事情发生了：三千年前赛提一世的大祭司伊莫顿犯下罪行，受到最严厉的诅咒被做成木乃伊封缄在石棺里，他的灵魂却不慎被唤醒，拥有了无比法力的伊莫顿即将血洗埃及，给世界带来无边灾难……