桃井さくら – 願いをこめて

陈霸先在梁朝末年以将军之身，始终如一守护风雨飘摇的王朝。因遭遇奸佞小人乘虚而入亲信背叛。经历挚友挚亲舍生取义而牺牲掩护逃离生死危机。心灰意冷之际，偶入世外桃源罗汉岩，就此遇良人遇恩师出江湖重整旗鼓。

 两位壮汉刑警在调查一起银行劫案时，发现犯罪分子居然个个刀枪不入。根据线索，他们找到一家公司，似乎最近的很多案件都和这家公司的一个秘密实验室有关。后来，此两位硬汉在与犯罪分子的斗争中不幸相继殉职，但这恰好给他们创造了机会——两个人亦成为试验品，他们的尸体即将被一个怀揣着极大阴谋的邪恶博士所利用……然而，哼哼，英勇的人民公安是不会向犯罪集团低头的，you can't keep a good cop dead！

　　一群青年肆无忌惮地违反了塔罗牌的规则，释放了牌中的可怕恶灵，他们一个接一个地面对命运的审判，使得最终陷入了一场与死亡的赛跑。

　　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.