騎車的女人

　　敬太（杉田雷麟 飾）的弟弟日向很久之前，在山中失蹤。敬太一直還在尋找弟弟。一天，他突然收到母親寄來的一盤舊錄像帶，里面是弟弟失蹤瞬間的錄像。　　敬太擅長通靈的室友（平井亞門 飾）從錄像帶中感受到了不祥的氣氛，并勸敬太不要過多地介入其中。 隨后，他倆與一直報道此事的記者 美琴（森田想 飾）共同前往了弟弟失蹤的那座山。

　　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.

在墨西哥的叢林深處的神廟，考古學家們發現了一種古老的蛇崇拜文化，同時他們不小心釋放了一條沉睡了幾個世紀的巨大而可怕的蟒蛇。

 迪茲（加里·庫珀 Gary Cooper 飾）是一位小有成就的商人，早已經衣食無憂的他希望能夠從繁忙的事務中脫身，將時間更多的花費在自己的興趣愛好之上。一筆價值兩千萬的巨額遺產從天而降落到了迪茲的頭上，報社問詢派來了記者芭比（琪恩·亞瑟 Jean Arthur 飾），希望她能夠從迪茲的身上挖掘出一些吸引眼球的新聞。剛開始，芭比十分看不慣迪茲的處世為人，但隨著時間的推移，她漸漸被后者的善良和正直所吸引，兩人之間產生了浪漫的愛情。迪茲決定將得到的遺產用于幫助深陷貧困的人，這一舉動遭到了律師約翰（Douglass Dumbrille 飾）的質疑，他堅定的認為迪茲的腦袋可能出了什么問題，甚至將他告到了法庭。