欲火

 在风景秀丽，气候宜人的王冠市，即将举行神奇宝贝足篮世界杯比赛，届时，大批的观众和训练师会涌入此处，整个城市将会陷入一片欢乐的海洋之中。小智（松本梨香 配音）一行人正在前往王冠市的路上，旅途中，他们遇见了名为索罗亚的神秘神奇宝贝，它不仅能够幻化成人类的姿态，还能够通过心电感应和人类交流。小智和索罗亚结伴前行，哪知道王冠市竟然发生了神奇宝贝暴动事件，雷公、炎帝和水君本是城市的守护神，却不知为何向市民们发起了进攻，城市之中一片混乱景象。这一切的始作俑者是名为克林克斯（阵内孝则 配音）的企业家，而他亦是索罗亚想要寻找的同伴。

　　故事设定在近未来，由于人口过剩和饥荒，政府不得不实行“独生子女”政策。正因为这个严格的计划生育议程，姐妹们必须轮流使用一个人的身份Karen Settman(拉佩斯饰)。她们的祖父(达福饰)给其命名为周一、周二、周三、周四、周五、周六和周日。每个人都可以每周外出一次。姐妹们只有在自己的公寓里才可以自在生活。直到有一天，“星期一”没回家......

　　孤独的少女米娅沉迷于通过陶瓷手召唤灵魂的刺激，但当她面对一个自称是她死去母亲的灵魂时，她释放了一场超自然力量的瘟疫，并努力决定她可以信任谁，是选择活着的人还是死者？

山村拐卖猖獗，警察池峰孤身潜入寻凶，地窖救人、村民暴动、夜总会血战，誓要以暴制暴守卫法律公道。

　　演员龟冈拓次（安田显），37岁、单身。作为演员，无论是配角还是什么角色都能出色演出，但是，人们却怎么也记住不到他的名字。每一天的日常就是便宜的酒馆里喝酒。直到有一天，收到了世界大物的甄选……

　　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.