堕落的伯爵夫人

　　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.

 故事发生在巴黎阿拉伯人和犹太人聚居区，那里有许多妓院。上了年纪、体弱多病的犹太妇女罗莎，负责照顾一群妓女所生的孩子，而她自己过去也曾当过妓女，并在纳粹集中营度过一段可怕的时光。影片主要表现罗莎夫人与她所照顾的一个阿拉伯男孩令人感动的关系。

　　病房里的五元硬币：护士吉川亚由美（武井咲 饰）发现，每当小病人麻友呆呆地指着某个房间某个病床时，该病床的病人就会很快死去。壁橱好可怕：心怀美容师梦想的青年干也（中岛健人 饰）在东京租住了一间廉价公寓，然而房间内的壁橱门总会莫名其妙打开。多出一个人的电梯：四名高中女孩去看望骨折住院的好友上崎亚矢奈因（生驹里奈 饰），当她们准备坐电梯离开时，电梯内突然好像又进来一个“人”。诅咒绘马：小岛洋介（バカリズム 饰）意外得到一个会带来厄运的绘马，他试图摆脱却没有办法。夏季通知：不顾父亲反对而闯荡东京的朋子（前田敦子 饰）饱受挫折，偏偏她发现已经去世的父亲（鹿贺丈史 饰）时不时出现在他的身边。引诱池塘：已步入老年的高松（柳叶敏郎 饰）告别子女，打算在度假区多待一天，夜幕降临，他似乎看到去世妻子的鬼魂在召唤着他。

　　影片讲述了阜县妖孽横行，县上的孩子不断离奇失踪，疯癫和尚受命下界驱魔降妖，正巧碰上地府判官钟馗来人间收魂。二人嬉笑怒骂斗嘴斗法，在爆笑不断的接连乌龙中引出了神秘银面人，还结识了美艳绝伦的客栈老板娘和凭借一张嘴就能把人“说死”的怪异书生，牵扯出一段前缘未尽痴缠几世的人狐恋。千年妖狐日日行善却为何屡屡炼鬼？神秘银面人到底是谁？佛、道、妖、魔聚首阜县，一场杀机四起的混战即将开启，疯癫和尚又将如何应对……