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　　国际大都会日本东京，光天化日之下发生了性质极其恶劣的抢劫案。某个十字路口发生诡异的交通事故，科学搜查班（ST）的各位顺藤摸瓜查清了事故的始作俑者——天才黑客镝木彻（中山裕介 饰）。但是ST的领导者赤城左门（藤原龙也 饰）面对众人对镝木的指控闪烁其词，他支开百合根友久（冈田将生 饰），独自前往镝木的住所。未久，镝木葬身火海，而赤城作为重要嫌疑人被同僚拘捕。青山翔（志田未来 饰）、结城翠（芦名星 饰）、黑崎勇治（漥田正孝 饰）、山吹才藏（三宅弘城 饰）等手下自然不会相信赤城的认罪供词，他们想方设法要查清真相，而百合根更为此故意犯罪进入拘留所，试图近距离听取赤城的心声。而就在关键时刻，赤城越狱逃亡……　　本片根据今野敏的原作改编。

在S县暑海市发生了一起连环失踪案件，受害者的遗体竟然都在海中被发现。为了揭开真相，警察署长与海洋生物学博士联手展开调查，最终他们发现，远古鲨鱼通过温泉来回穿梭，袭击了无辜的市民…

　　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.

　　一个诚实的科学家把死去的百万富翁(多诺万饰)的大脑保存在水箱里。多诺万成功地把他强大的意志强加给这位科学家，并利用他来谋杀他的敌人。