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 玛利亚（朱丽·安德鲁斯  饰）是一个年轻活泼的修女，喜欢在大自然下高声歌唱，所以她常常忘记了修道院里的规矩。院长认为玛利亚并不属于规矩严格的修道院。院长与众嬷嬷商量后，决定安排玛利亚到一位名叫特拉普（克里斯托弗·普卢默 饰）上校家当家庭教师。上校的妻子去世多年，留下7个孩子，他要求对孩子严格管教。他告诉玛利亚在他家的家庭教师都做不长久，都是因为孩子的恶作剧。玛利亚果然也遭到了恶作剧，可是这位善良的老师并没有告诉他们的父亲，而是像个母亲一样照顾孩子，很快跟孩子打成一片。上校也渐渐在玛利亚的引导下改变了对孩子们的态度。上校与玛利亚之间发生了感情，他们完婚后回到了已被纳粹占领的奥地利，上校并不想为纳粹办事，一家人准备逃跑……

　　父亲与少年关系生疏，两人决定以一次狩猎之行缓释心结，然而深藏在森林中的灰熊，却早已为他们埋下了生存危机。

　　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.

　　S铜山的女人：失意的保险公司业务员山边夏美（石原里美 饰）和同僚桑原（小池彻平 饰）在归途中误入被封闭多年的S铜矿山，由此遭遇了一连串恐怖的诡异事件；小智：被情感困扰的女孩里奈（刚力彩芽 饰）按照都市传说给自己的手机打了电话，并连念三遍“小智”，希望解开心中疑惑，谁知此后却被小智缠上；凶手是谁：看似阴沉的派遣职员熊谷（北乃纪伊 饰）自称能够看到别人看不到的真相，她的上司三泽健太（草剪刚 饰）起初并不相信，但接连的事实让他大为震惊；诱惑的森林：小葵（岛崎遥香 饰）和朋友结菜（广濑爱丽丝 饰）去山里游玩，山中一间老旧的厕所却带给她们最恐怖的回忆；把手给我：勤奋的OL泷本理沙（桐谷美玲 饰）不知何时与同学兼同事的好友雅美（菜菜绪 饰）关系变差，压力巨大的她发现每晚都有一只手紧紧抓住她的胳膊；出租车司机的自述：老实的出租车司机中川（坂上忍 饰）在晚上载了一位要去很远地方的女客人，但是这位客人竟是如此沉默；黑暗中的视觉：人过中年的森川千寻（黑木瞳 饰）在一家工厂找到工作，拥有天眼的她看到了许多的鬼魂。

故事围绕的士司机宇佐美浩二（木村拓哉 饰）展开，他每日奔波于都市间工作养家，却因女儿的学费、的士验车费、房屋租金等接踵而至的现实压力而身心俱疲。某日，浩二接到一项特别的委托——接载年迈的高野堇女士（倍赏千惠子 饰）从东京柴又前往神奈川叶山的养老院。“在离开东京之前，想先到几个想去的地方看看”，堇女士淡然请求。随着的士驶过日本的大街小巷，陌生的两人逐渐打开心扉，堇女士也徐徐道出自己跌宕的人生过往。这趟偶然的旅程，不仅触动了他们的心灵，也让二人在平凡的日子中，为彼此的人生留下难忘的美好印记。

　　他（Method Man 饰）是一个沉默的男子，永远礼帽风衣，沉默地穿梭在这座道德沦丧、破败绝望的城市的大街小巷。死亡每天发生，司空见惯，不知天高地厚的年轻人们呼啸而过，挥霍生命。白天他是市殡仪馆的殡仪师，以娴熟专业且庄重的手法清理残破不堪的尸体，带死者走过最后一程；夜晚则端坐那间被暴怒吵闹的邻居所包围的小屋里，细心制作动物标本，为他们的主人找回最后的安慰。　　某天，一具女性尸体在他死水般的内心世界引起涟漪。尸体上纹有波提切利的名作《维纳斯诞生》，似曾相识的图案勾起了他对往事的回忆。城市的自毁仍在继续，他也无法永保平静……