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.

《狂鳄海啸》讲述了在东南亚某国打拼的华人姜芃（荣飞饰），在妻子离世后，和正值叛逆期的女儿姜小湖（王影璐饰）相依为命，在曲折的经历中战胜邪恶，回归平静和谐的生活的故事。

香港的创作乐手Michael（吴彦祖）因故滞留北京，与一群真心热爱着摇滚乐的北漂青年相遇。他们有着自己的乐队，乐队主唱叫做平路（耿乐），队里还有个活泼反叛的领舞女孩儿杨颍（舒淇）。Michael被这群年轻人深深吸引着，他喜欢他们对音乐苦苦的执着精神，一路跟着他们到乡下走穴。然而，本土文化浓重的北京既可以深刻的诠释摇滚音乐，又可以高傲的把它视为粪土、垃圾。平路他们生活拮据，在音乐的路途上不断碰壁。唯一不变就是对音乐发自灵魂的热爱，如同那歌里一声声的诘问：“我想到光的深处，那里有风么……”边缘的生活方式，坚挺的灵魂，感动每个人的是歌声还有梦想……

本片为银魂剧场版的预告片。故事背景回到了攘夷时期，讲述了攘夷志士四人组——坂田银时，桂小太郎，高杉晋助和坂本辰马在攘夷战争中发生的故事。江户时代，天人来袭，幕府无力抵抗只好打开国门，同时颁布了废刀令。不愿意屈服于天人的武士，便成立了一个攘夷组织。其中的佼佼者，银时等四人坚持武士道，纷纷蜂拥起义，与天人展开轰轰烈烈的战斗。与敌人激烈战斗到最后的桂小太郎，与伙伴坂田银时约定：与其死在敌人手中，不如像个武士高洁的切腹。然而，被称为“白夜叉”的银时却拼尽全力战斗到最后一刻……其实本片是个伪剧场版预告，是制作组跟粉丝开的一个玩笑。