不久之前刚刚经历丧妻之痛的约翰·威克（基努·里维斯 Keanu Reeves 饰），未曾料到磨难与折磨接二连三袭来。他那辆1964年的福特老爷车被一伙俄罗斯小混混盯上，旋即引来对方入室抢劫，心爱的狗狗被当场杀死，约翰也遭到无情毒打，那辆老爷车自然被对方抢走。偷车的混混（阿尔菲·艾伦 Alfie Allen 饰）是黑帮大佬维格?塔拉索夫（迈克尔·恩奎斯特 Michael Nyqvist 饰）的儿子，而维格在听说这件事后显得紧张非常，因为约翰有着令人胆战心惊的身份。他曾是名震江湖的冷血杀手，当年替塔拉索夫杀掉不少难缠的对手，后来却为了妻子金盆洗手。愤怒至极的约翰拒绝塔拉索夫的调解，他决定单枪匹马展开复仇……

故事发生在上世纪30年代旧社会一个江南小镇上。资本主义的剥削无情地冲击着原本脆弱本土经济，原本岁月静好的小镇也被时代的漩涡深深地波及到，主人公囡囡就生活在这样一个动荡的时局中。他不愿相信母亲已离开了他的现实，逢人便述说着妈妈答应过会回来接他，被小伙伴嘲讽后就开始用自己的行动去寻找自己梦中的妈妈。水墨动画一直是中国最有代表性的动画的形式之一，但是近些年来水墨动画由于工艺繁琐制作难度高而逐渐式微，本片主旨便是想通过这种国产动画独特的表现手法，运用传统文化中“静极生动”的方式，以极具中国传统的江南水乡风情的宁静画面烘托整个时代背景的汹涌巨变，通过一个小人物、一段小故事来展现普通人在历史洪流中遭受的苦难，珍惜现在美好生活的来之不易。

子傑、浩天、神婆和珈豪四人前往島上一個隱世村落-赤坎村。村上渺無人煙，只得頹垣敗瓦，唯剩釀酒場裡的一對父女-華哥與小晴。天色由昏入夜，意外接連發生，各種蛛絲馬跡一再顯示一股神秘力量真實存在，島嶼被一片弔詭氣氛籠罩。眾人在村里各處遇到超出認知的異常，這些怪異存在說不清道不明，卻直指眾人埋藏至深的心魔。到底是誰把他們牽引過來？他們是否能逃出這個呼天不應的孤島？

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.