竹夫人

 大漠之上，镖人、官府、西域五大家族等多方势力盘根错节、暗潮涌动。“天字第二号逃犯”刀马接下特殊押镖任务，和同伴一起从西域护镖远赴长安。不料，他们的护送对象竟是“天字第一号逃犯”知世郎……天下熙熙皆为利来，各方势力闻风入局，抢镖厮杀接连上演……

　　万圣节前一天，五名狂欢节员工被绑架挟持到一个称为“肃杀世界”的孤立院子。在万圣节时，他们会被扔进一个名叫“31”的虐待狂的游戏中，他们将面对一群穿得像小丑一样的疯子。然而，小丑并不是唯一需要担心的，一个更宏大的邪教仪式和更残酷的阴谋将被唤醒......

　　A blended family from the city buys a house sight unseen in an isolated backwoods hamlet. Things get rocky when the locals aren't as welcoming as expected and a dangerous urban legend turns out to be true. In their struggle to put down roots, they find their sanctuary in peril-and their lives threatened-by the land's haunted past.

　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.

一个选择，两种人生轨迹。她的故事，还是他的真相？

　　病房里的五元硬币：护士吉川亚由美（武井咲 饰）发现，每当小病人麻友呆呆地指着某个房间某个病床时，该病床的病人就会很快死去。壁橱好可怕：心怀美容师梦想的青年干也（中岛健人 饰）在东京租住了一间廉价公寓，然而房间内的壁橱门总会莫名其妙打开。多出一个人的电梯：四名高中女孩去看望骨折住院的好友上崎亚矢奈因（生驹里奈 饰），当她们准备坐电梯离开时，电梯内突然好像又进来一个“人”。诅咒绘马：小岛洋介（バカリズム 饰）意外得到一个会带来厄运的绘马，他试图摆脱却没有办法。夏季通知：不顾父亲反对而闯荡东京的朋子（前田敦子 饰）饱受挫折，偏偏她发现已经去世的父亲（鹿贺丈史 饰）时不时出现在他的身边。引诱池塘：已步入老年的高松（柳叶敏郎 饰）告别子女，打算在度假区多待一天，夜幕降临，他似乎看到去世妻子的鬼魂在召唤着他。