好友2024

　　东京，一个世界知名的大城市。 Sarah (何超仪 饰) 与男友分手后，来到此地欲求购买房生产，并度过一个短暂而宁静的假期，但一切事与愿违。由于美国总统的突然到访东京，原定的酒店已满。　　房地产公司将她安置在一座非常破旧废弃令人毛骨悚然的私人民宿 “minipaku” 中 ，当Sarah入住时，她发现它是由一位老妇人（白川和子 饰）经营的。她在那里的第一个晚上感到十分不安和可怕，噩梦连连，并且病了起来，只能被迫留下来，更令她意外地发现了一具正在被寄生虫吞噬的完整骨骼。警察局的高级警司（高桥和也 饰）接手调查，也发现这家民宿牵涉多宗连环离奇失踪案件，怪事连连，警司也未能为Sarah破解。　　这座有着非常神秘力量和不明历史的房子，与Sarah有着某种联系。当 “minpaku” 的灯熄灭时，可怕而令人不安的景象笼罩着她，它们变得越来越真实。一场又一场可怕而离奇的噩梦，令人不知道这是开始还是结束，似乎一切都是安排好的。

　　Katrine Ries Jensen警探和法律神经病专家托马斯·谢弗正在哥本哈根警局组建了一个连环杀人案调查小组。随着调查的深入，慢慢隐现了一个与谢弗过去处理过的一个案子有关。作为初出茅庐的神经病专家，他曾经送回一个病人去往精神病医院，因为他能把一个交通事变的细节绘声绘色的描绘出来。现在这些血腥的描绘一个个闪现出来，翻开了一个个真正在的命案……

在S县暑海市发生了一起连环失踪案件，受害者的遗体竟然都在海中被发现。为了揭开真相，警察署长与海洋生物学博士联手展开调查，最终他们发现，远古鲨鱼通过温泉来回穿梭，袭击了无辜的市民…

　　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.