母女主人

　　擔任臨時教師的君島穗香(澀谷凪咲)，目擊了一個女學生從屋頂跳下的瞬間。當她在暑假補習班上課時，又注意到有個不應該存在的學生。不久后，穗香與補習班的三浦瞳(早瀨憩)、前川武(山時聰真)等學生們，得知了與那個女學生有關的令人震驚的事實。

故事以19世紀的開曼群島為背景，索爾達娜飾演居住在加勒比海地區的埃克塞爾，這是一個非常強勢的女性角色，當她的島嶼被兇殘的海盜入侵時，她過去的秘密將被揭開。

　　在某臨近海濱的醫院內，住著一個無依無靠的中年男子金珉昊（千浩振 飾）。由于左半邊身體失去知覺，加上腦神經受損，因此他無時無刻不想了結這苦難的人生。這一日，醫院送來了另一位沒有任何親眷的病號，他的名字叫做樸尚樺（劉海鎮 飾），因腦部受損而失去了記憶，與金安排在同一個加護病房。樸的到來，激起金珉昊心中無限的波瀾。這兩個男人似乎曾有著無限的仇恨與瓜葛，致令金想盡各種辦法要置其于死地，而漸漸恢復記憶的樸也將同樣的仇恨傾瀉于金珉昊。　　與此同時，神秘的白醫生一反常態對兩個男人進行特殊關護，并且用匪夷所思的治療方法幫助他們恢復健康。這一切的背后，似乎隱藏著更大的謎團……

　　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.