Island of Dreams

A casehardened cop is pitted against a young ecoterrorist The title island is an artificial construct in Tokyo Bay a mountain of garbage a byproduct of Japans economic boom years The films protagonist Alan works there almost buried under societys detritus his growing obsession with the search for what has been lost turns him into a dangerous activist He targets the industrialist Wada whose chemical factory secretly discharges toxic waste into the environment But the cop Terayama who thought hed seen it all starts researching ecoactivism and soon suspects the haunted taciturn young man hes encountered in the neighborhood