環(huán)游世界秀肉

機器人藝妓

　　少女芳江（木口亞矢 飾）本是某藝妓館內(nèi)的低等侍女，她潛心伺候身為當家藝妓的姐姐菊奴（長谷部瞳 飾），但是菊奴對她頤指氣使，絕情絕義。偶然機會，芳江過人的膂力被影野制鐵的少爺影野光（齋藤工 飾）所發(fā)掘。影野制鐵表面上是一家大型家族式鋼鐵公司，暗中則受命于國家，擔負武器的制造工作。與此同時，其創(chuàng)始人影野拳山（志垣太郎 飾）懷有不可告人的野心，他四處網(wǎng)羅人生失意的女孩，將她們訓練成美貌與殺傷力并重的藝妓殺手，甚至通過身體機械化改造來加強女孩們的實力?！　°裸露姆冀c菊奴被騙進入影野制鐵，姐妹倆更被迫互相殘殺。在此過程中，她們?yōu)榱顺綄Ψ蕉粩嗉訌娪柧毢透脑?，繼而成為影野家族不可或缺的機器人殺手。然而隨著任務(wù)的進行，芳江卻漸漸發(fā)現(xiàn)親情的珍貴以及影野家族的丑惡用心……

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　　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.

時光插班生

三十一

　　萬圣節(jié)前一天，五名狂歡節(jié)員工被綁架挾持到一個稱為“肅殺世界”的孤立院子。在萬圣節(jié)時，他們會被扔進一個名叫“31”的虐待狂的游戲中，他們將面對一群穿得像小丑一樣的瘋子。然而，小丑并不是唯一需要擔心的，一個更宏大的邪教儀式和更殘酷的陰謀將被喚醒......