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　　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。

高俐醉酒被强哥等人绑架索赎金一亿，杨非因父需百万手术费赶路时车被同一伙劫匪抢走。二人相遇后，杨非助高俐斗绑匪，发现高俐与曾因治妻病抵押房产、借高利贷却致家庭破裂的父亲有矛盾。最终高俐获救，与父和解，杨非凑齐手术费，二人相恋。

 画面开始，一双丰满的手灵巧地揉面、按记儿、擀皮儿、包包子。没过一会儿，一笼白白净净又馋人的包子就做得了。相貌平平的女主人推开厨房的窗户，短暂的歇息。稍后，包子蒸熟，女主人端着它来到餐桌前。此时，她的老公已经起床，正目不转睛地盯着电视的新闻。而他看了表后狼吞虎咽，便匆匆上班去了。失落的女主人拿起最后一个包子，可刚一张嘴包子便大哭了起来。不知为何包子有了生命，而倍感孤独的女主人格外开心，于是将包宝宝当做自己的孩子抚养。小包子一天天长大，他起初和女主人分外亲近，但是他渐渐有了自己的个性，渴望独立，渴望远行……本片是《超人总动员2》的贴片短片，荣获奥斯卡电影金像奖最佳动画短片奖。

　　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.