松岡すず – 夜明けのスターダスト

Petch想摆脱杀手生涯，但逃离过去谈何容易？在爱情、忠诚与复仇之间挣扎，他被迫接下最后一单。每一枪响起，赌注都在升级。他的未来与自由，全系于最后一颗子弹。 　　“终极任务，致命一枪，无路可退。”

省公安厅夏丹调查表弟吸毒致死案，发现背后涉及跨境贩毒集团。她与香港警察卡龙合作卧底，接触头目冷月及其上级李绍远。警方通过技术手段锁定国际毒贩托妮，为取得对方信任，夏丹不得不当着毒贩们的面当场将卡龙击毙……

五〇年代，相馆世家长子前往东京追寻属于自己的艺术摄影。十年打磨，怪才摄影师深濑昌久在东京重生，爱妻鳄部洋子成为他的缪思女神，痴迷、寂寥、狂乱的灵魂逐步显影。在快门间追求游戏与私密性的展现，深濑昌久步步建筑起属于自己的艺术殿堂。但背后驱动鼓吹他的，却是一只潜伏在心底暗角、如影随形的乌鸦，一点一滴渗透他的心灵⋯⋯

　　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.