阿爾卑斯

　　大老板(陳龍飾)所困的不法山客棧迎來了一群不一般的客官，這其中，來勢洶洶的西域人究竟是何身份?群妖匯集在此蠢蠢欲動又所圖為何?而路經此地的唐僧師徒四人又將變幻何人才能騙過眾人耳目?在這座無法使用法力的神秘客棧，一場驚心動魄的西游版“狼人殺”即將拉開序幕。

父親神秘死亡后，年輕的阿米什女子艾瑪想要體驗一些不同的東西，于是，她背著母親瑪麗，在朋友麗貝卡的幫助下，逃到英國世界去參加朗姆酒聚會。在那里，她遇到了白馬王子希思，他讓她愛不釋手。但她與他的夢幻約會被打斷了，因為他因緊急工作被叫到另一座城市。莎拉獨自留在家里體驗現代世界的所有便利設施，她的生活很快變成了一場噩夢，她在廚房發現了一具尸體，不久之后，被一個神秘人物打昏。恢復意識后，她決定逃回阿米什人的生活并躲起來，但是當偵探敲門詢問時，她意識到她必須自己尋找兇手。

　　帶薪休假的寶生家族千金小姐麗子（北川景子 飾），好不容易和管家影山（櫻井翔 飾）乘直升飛機趕上了開往新加坡的公主麗子號豪華游輪。她在船上意外見到上司——警視廳國立署警部風祭京一郎（椎名桔平 飾），原來風祭奉市長之命護送純金打造的K獅前往獅城。豪華一流的配套服務，讓游客們樂享其中。可就在燃放煙火的夜晚，一名男子的尸體落入海中，引起不小的恐慌。在此之后，風祭、麗子、影山聯合起來展開調查，而犯罪分子也以全體船員的性命相要挾禁止與外界聯系。　　接二連三有人遇害，時間則一分一秒地流逝，影山他們能否解開兇險的謎題？

　　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.