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講述某處某個“式”的故事——它究竟是祝福，還是一場離別的儀式？答案，藏在某個尚未抵達的地方。

錺（かざり）職人のもとに奉公していた幸助（片岡千之助）は、ようやく8年の年季が明けることになった。                                                                      　　幸助は幼馴染のお蝶（北 香那）という娘に想いを寄せていた。                                                                      　　5年前、幸助とお蝶は年季が明けるその日、刻は暮六ツに、萬年橋で會う約束をしていた。                                                                      　　互いに想いながらもこの5年の間、幸助は人には言えない秘密を抱えていた。                                                                      　　また、お蝶の身にも幸助には話せない辛い思いがあった。                                                                      　　橋が見渡せる川辺からそっとお蝶を探す幸助。懐にはお蝶の為に作った簪（かんざし）が入っている。                                                                      　　果たして二人は萬年橋で再會することができるのか……。

　　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.

　　故事發(fā)生在繁華的大都市東京，十四歲的少女阿綠（中村里砂 飾）失去了唯一的親人，孤苦無依的她在誤打誤撞之中走進了名為“赤貓座”的巡回馬戲團中，就此拉開了悲慘人生的序幕。無處可去的阿綠在馬戲團中受盡了眾人的凌辱和折磨，淪為奴隸和傭人，日子過得苦不堪言，每一天都是地獄般的寫照 ?！　【驮诎⒕G快要絕望之時，侏儒魔術師出現(xiàn)在了馬戲團中，出現(xiàn)在了她的眼前。侏儒魔術師的出現(xiàn)讓快要倒閉的馬戲團重現(xiàn)生機，他亦成為了馬戲團中最重要的成員。與此同時，阿綠在魔術師的身上找到了久違的溫暖和感情，兩人決定結婚，雙雙逃離這充滿了痛苦的魔窟。