Love Seed 橋本愛実

 脑子缺根弦儿的九能带刀（鈴置洋孝 饰）路过邪马台古董店，在店内看到了极为珍贵的凤凰蛋。传说只要拥有这枚蛋，便可领会到威力无比的魔剑凤凰剑。为了打败宿敌乱马（山口勝平 饰），成为至高无上的强者，九能强买下凤凰蛋。不过店主（北村弘一 饰）叮嘱，无论如何千万不能将蛋放在头顶，否则将由可怕的事情发生。不幸的是，乱马无意中将蛋放在了九能的头上，一只长相奇怪的鸟儿诞生了。它帮助九能成为足以打败任何对手的强者。争强好胜的乱马无论如何都要挽回面子……本片根据高桥留美子的漫画《乱马1/2》改编，系该动画的剧场版第3部。

　　乱步作品

　　影片时间线设定在1979年第一部《异形》与1986年的续集《异形2》之间，围绕一群年轻而勇敢的太空殖民者展开。讲述他们为逃离外星采矿殖民地的沉闷生活，在冒险探索一座废弃的太空站时，意外遭遇了宇宙中最可怕的生命体——异形。　　狭窄幽暗、危机四伏的空间站中，大逃杀的序幕已经被无情拉开，人类再次成为异形生物捕猎的目标。在无尽的黑暗与死亡威胁的笼罩之下，太空探险队员们能否在每一次心跳的瞬间，察觉到未知生物潜伏的丝丝寒意？在这场你死我活的追逐战中，他们将直面怎样的信任挑战和道德挣扎？当一个又一个同伴被残忍吞噬，求救无门的他们究竟能否在这场太空杀戮中寻得一线生机？

　　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.