花之夏 / 石森瑞穗 [HIGR-048]

等待方舟

　　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.

宝岛2025

在二战后尚未归还日本的冲绳岛上，有一群人自可怕的「铁暴风」中幸存下来。他们像动物般活在残破的世界，眼前是垂死的岛民和尸体。于是他们从美军的仓库和基地抢夺物资，延续这座岛上未完的战争，他们被叫做「战果捞客」。直到那一夜，阿恩（永山瑛太 饰）在嘉手纳基地的逃亡过程中神秘失踪，一场曾将故乡烧毁殆尽的铁暴风再度席卷这座岛屿而来。 「活下去，生还才是最大的战果。」多年之后，岛上女孩接连惨遭杀害，一名菜鸟琉球警察（妻夫木聪 饰）奉令侦办命案。追捕疑犯的过程中，在凶手车子里发现的人骨和一名神秘出现的男孩，让他儿时身为战果捞客的记忆与一道道未解谜团又重回脑海。

远山淡影2025

1982年，英国。一位年轻有抱负的日英混血作家准备书写其母亲——1952年，英国。战后移英的日本妇人悦子，因长女自杀而忆起在长崎的最后一段时光。悦子与妇人幸子相遇，幸子也准备和女儿出国，对新生活翘首以待。然而，作家在拼凑线索及母亲的记忆碎片时，渐渐发现母亲的记忆与现实相左.…..石川庆改编诺贝尔文学奖得主石黑一雄早年同名原著，双线刻划战后女性挣扎求存之境，表面平静实质波澜不休，折射出大时代下压抑而沉重的集体记忆与痛苦。

家用摄像头

当兼顾工作和抚养孩子的单身母亲成熙（尹世雅饰）为她年幼的女儿在整个房子里安装家庭摄像头时，奇怪的事情开始了。

我当你兄弟

两个黑帮大佬和他心爱的女人，度过人生中最玩命的一夜求生战。一部“时光机”的出现，令这一夜瞬间变成时空错乱的闹剧……

机械怪兽