極樂女忍者

1935年上海中共地下組織遭國(guó)民黨特務(wù)重創(chuàng)，絕密檔案危在旦夕。地下黨員徐峰、李靜臨危受命與叛徒、特務(wù)展開生死周旋，更要面對(duì)昔日兄弟反目的仇怨，歷經(jīng)重重犧牲與考驗(yàn)，最終成功取回絕密檔案，完成革命使命。

日軍侵華，陳春生目睹父親慘死刀下，執(zhí)念驅(qū)使他不顧母親哀求，深夜偷跑參軍，立誓抗日救國(guó)，再回家鄉(xiāng)。他在戰(zhàn)場(chǎng)浴血成長(zhǎng)，終見山河光復(fù)，然而內(nèi)戰(zhàn)打響，拖慢了他回鄉(xiāng)的腳步。陳春生拒絕向同胞舉槍，淪為逃兵被關(guān)押，1949年被強(qiáng)行運(yùn)往臺(tái)灣。在臺(tái)數(shù)十年，他漂泊無(wú)依，雖遇良伴組建新家，卻始終被思鄉(xiāng)之苦煎熬。兩岸三通后，他竟得知母親仍在等他，八十三歲的他飛奔回鄉(xiāng)，與百歲母親相認(rèn)，這份遲到71年的承諾，終在生命盡頭圓滿。

　　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.

A noir portrait of Italy in the Seventies.