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　　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.

　　平安時代，百鬼夜行，封鬼儀式正在右大臣藤原安麻呂府邸進行。安麻呂之女日美子（深田恭子 飾）戎裝登場，一箭命中靶心，引來全場驚嘆。這位被喻為“連鬼都不敢接近”的公主，卻令源博雅（伊藤英明 飾）暗自傾心。天現(xiàn)異象，京都騷動，魍魎橫行。平安京已有四人遇害，民間出現(xiàn)驅(qū)鬼術(shù)士幻角（中井貴一 飾），日美子亦在異象后開始夢游。博雅為此替右大臣來請安倍晴明（野村萬齋 飾）商談。與此同時，宮廷供奉的出云三神器之一草薙劍也出現(xiàn)了異動。晴明受天皇所托，與博雅開始調(diào)查種種異況背后出云與大和的隱秘淵源?！　〔┭藕鸵箯椗玫纳衩厣倌觏氉簦ㄊ性廊?飾）相識為樂友，須佐負傷被日美子所救，三人在右大臣府邸相逢。同一時刻，右大臣主動找到晴明，坦白了十八年前天現(xiàn)異象時，大和攻打出云的事實……　　本片為電影《陰陽師》續(xù)作。

　　影片《靈異醫(yī)院》講述的是一個有著不堪過去的女人在一家新近倒閉關(guān)門的醫(yī)院找到了一份核對病人簡歷復(fù)印件的工作，而孤獨一人在隔絕的醫(yī)院值夜班的過程中她經(jīng)歷了一些神秘事件。有所警覺的她通過這些事件發(fā)現(xiàn)醫(yī)院可能和近日出現(xiàn)的謀殺案有關(guān)，而要破解這些謎團，首先她需要仔細梳理一下自己混亂的過去。

　　本片改編自民間傳說，幾個世紀以來，在不同的文化背景下，父母都會警告他們的孩子要小心傳說中的Bagman。Bagman會把無辜的孩子抓走，塞進那骯臟腐爛的袋子里，再也沒法回到父母身邊。Patrick McKee小時候曾逃過此劫，但這給他的生活留下了永久的創(chuàng)傷?，F(xiàn)在，Bagman又回來了，威脅著他妻子Karina和兒子Jake的安全。