聊斋志异之孽欲孤鬼

　　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.

　　大石刚介（三船敏郎 饰）升任关东同盟理事长，与中岛组佐仓一诚（佐分利信 饰）势均力敌，维持着表面的和平。但日本政界要员大山喜久夫（片冈千惠藏 饰）因癌症病倒，几乎再次点燃两派战火。大山幸得一宫恭夫（高桥悦史 饰）医治死里逃生，因此号召帮派联合，遭到两派抵制。　　此时塞班岛开发项目成为抗争的导火索。中岛组干部川西（菅原文太 饰）为筹措资金，强令木村建设破产，并将木村之女献给保守党要员刈田（西村晃 饰）。另一方面，大石拉拢刈田的儿子春男入伙，作为特使赴塞班岛向美国官员行贿。大山暗示佐仓除去大石，一场搅和了黑帮、政客、外国人的纷争就此展开，而佐仓似乎也朝日本首领的目标又迈进了坚实的一步……

　　娜奥米-沃茨在影片中扮演一个名叫玛丽的儿童心理学家，她遭遇了人生中最不幸的事件：丈夫被一场离奇车祸夺去了性命，儿子则因这次灾难变成了植物人。一次偶然的机会，玛丽邂逅了一个叫汤姆的患儿，她将这个诡异的男孩带回家抚养，却因此招来了一连串不可思议的事件。

　　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。