金盆洗手的女人

亂馬12：中國昆侖大決戰(zhàn)！破壞計(jì)劃之激斗篇?。?/h3>

 又是一個平靜的日子，內(nèi)褲愛好者八寶齋（永井一郎 飾）四面出擊，惹得亂馬（山口勝平 飾）、小茜、良牙（山寺宏一 飾）、珊璞（佐久間レイ 飾）等人紛紛加入進(jìn)來，在鎮(zhèn)上惹出巨大的騷動。正當(dāng)眾人鬧得不可開交之時(shí)，一頭裹挾著黑色殺氣的大象突然襲來。它和美麗的主人向八寶齋發(fā)起攻擊。與此同時(shí)，天空陰云密布，一艘巨船出現(xiàn)在空中。他們是來自中國內(nèi)地寢昆侖的七福道神，這群神秘之人不僅搶走騎象少女帶來的奧義經(jīng)卷，還虜走了小茜。亂馬一眾不堪就范，決定啟程前往中國……本片根據(jù)高橋留美子的漫畫《亂馬1/2》改編，系該動畫的劇場版第一部。

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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.

命運(yùn)之書

　　火、水、風(fēng)、土、和空氣，生命五種核心元素曾經(jīng)注入在一本書--命運(yùn)之書。黑暗籠罩了大地，需要借助筆和書的力量，但這本書卻失蹤了，人們以為它永遠(yuǎn)消失了，但數(shù)百年后卻又再度出現(xiàn)……