米兰达

双龙吐珠

　　英勇保护证人而展开一连串的警险搞笑……　　吴阿秋（吴耀汉）与贝多芬（岑建勋）奉命保护重要证人罗美美（罗美薇），但美美天性反斗，不喜被贴身保护，偷偷溜走，引来追杀危机。秋误以为自己身患绝症，变得非常搏命，与杀手拼个你死我活……

闹鬼校园

　　自幼能够看到恐怖幽灵的八神森司（中山优马 饰），在高中时邂逅了被神秘鬼影纠缠的后辈小历（岛崎遥香 饰）。他虽然喜欢对方，却由于自身胆怯的性格始终无法表白。第一年没有考上大学，经过一番努力森司如愿进入期望的高校，并且和小历重逢。在此期间，他听说小历和童年好友加入了某个超自然研究会，联想到高中的事件，森司无法对小历放任不管，于是也硬着头皮加入进去。这群个性满满的年轻人每天追踪各类神秘事件，不久后校园内开始出现离奇现象，而小历也成为恶灵狙击的目标……　　本片根据第19届日本恐怖小说大奖读者奖获得者櫛木理宇的同名作品改编。

等待方舟

　　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.

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