镜花风月之春降

　　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.

　　在近代日本坊间流传着这样一个传说，名叫岛礼子的美丽少女被美国大兵轮奸，在此之后她精神失常，卧轨而死。岛礼子一缕幽魂不散，化作只有上半身的恐怖恶灵。它极端憎恶红色，每晚出没在横跨铁路的天桥上，并在路过之人背后发出“嗒卡嗒卡”的声音。一旦路人回头，它便将对方拦腰斩断。即使侥幸逃过，在接下来的72小时内也必然遭到“嗒卡嗒卡”的猎杀。　　高中少女大桥可奈（大岛优子 饰）的好友绫花夜归遭遇“嗒卡嗒卡”，遇害身亡。克奈在祭拜好友时，同样见到这个恐怖恶灵，不过侥幸逃脱。然而死亡的阴影仍然笼罩在她的头上，在女大学生平山理绘（山崎真实 饰）的帮助下，她们一同出发寻找求生的办法……

　　约翰．卡彭特导演的这部科幻片并没有强调特技噱头，反而将重心放在异乡人的主题上，而且拍出了相当浪漫动人的气氛，甚至可以将它当作一部取外星人为主角的文艺片来欣赏。杰夫．布里奇斯饰演一名纯真的外星人，他的宇宙飞船被地救人击落，掉在威斯康辛州的荒野。他负伤来到新近丧偶的寡妇凯伦艾的家中，并且借用她丈夫的身体来延续生命。在学习地球人的生活方式过程中，他跟寡妇发生了感情。外星人的救援队将在三天后到达亚历桑纳州接他回外层空间，他需要寡妇开车送他到那里。地球上的两位政府官员也接获讯息，他们决定不管生死都要捉住外星人，因而引发了一场精彩的拉锯战。

　　在一家珠宝贸易公司工作的肥丁（洪金宝）因是胖仔外加做人老实，常被老板娘周太（梁珊）和其弟（曹查理）骑在头上，重活脏活全要揽下不说，工作稍微出点错就会被骂得狗血淋头。一日，他和在货运部工作的同事阿B（钟镇涛）一起按老板吩咐送钻石给中东酋长，之后将所收钱款送往银行的途中遭劫，周太和其弟不问青红诬告两人与劫匪是同伙。　　越想越来气的肥丁决定绑架周太以泄压抑已久的怒火。在他准备行动之时，周家刚从美国归来的女儿祖儿（王祖贤）正同后母周太发生激烈的争吵，结果阴差阳错祖儿被他绑架，之后又被阿B绑至家中。肥丁在阿B的逼迫下无奈向周家索要赎金，一时笑料百出。

　　三年前的8月31日，“侵略者”巨大的母舰突如其来地降临在东京，眼看这个世界即将迎来末日。　　自此之后，绝望渐渐地融入了日常生活；大大的飞碟盘旋于空中，今天也依然不变地持续环绕着世界。而在还没有来到世界末日的此刻，小山门出、中川凰兰这两个高中女生的青春时代才正要展开。

　　地球征服をたくらむ宇宙海賊・ザノンが次々と送り込む怪獣を、平和星M38から派遣された3人の宇宙人が、ガメラを呼んで撃退する。“ガメラ“シリーズ全7作から、ガメラと怪獣たちの戦闘シーンをピック・アップしたアンソロジー。