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平侍出身、獨眼的劍豪丹下左馬之介（森山未來 飾），奉相馬家當主大膳亮（每熊克哉 飾）之命，前往江戶小野冢道場奪取傳說中的一對妖刀“乾云丸”與“坤龍丸”。他以忠義為念拼死挑戰(zhàn)，卻在激斗中失去了右臂。幸得通緝犯阿藤（黑木華 飾）與與吉（加藤諒 飾）相救，奇跡般地存活下來，化名“丹下左膳”重生。此后，圍繞妖刀的陰謀不斷擴大，敵人接踵而至，連町奉行大岡忠相（高橋克典 飾）也卷入其中——一場關(guān)乎忠義與命運的江戶風云由此展開。

　　Gentry Wade, who gave up music after her father's death decades ago must confront her past when Nashville's Grand Ole Opry invites her to honor her late country star dad at their Christmas celebration.

　　大衛(wèi)（彼得·費辛利 Peter Facinelli 飾）的妻子英年早逝，之后他遇見了名為勞倫（索菲亞·邁爾斯 Sophia Myles 飾）的女子，兩人墜入了情網(wǎng)，勞倫讓大衛(wèi)重新找到了人生的希望和目標。大衛(wèi)和前妻生養(yǎng)了一個女兒取名吉爾（娜塔莉亞·羅蒙絲 Nathalia Ramos 飾），正直叛逆期的她獨自居住在哥倫比亞。　　某日，大衛(wèi)和勞倫踏上前往哥倫比亞的旅途探望女兒，可在途中竟然遭遇了車禍。兩人在暴雨之中找到了一間破舊的旅館棲身，卻在無意之中聽見旅館的地下室里傳來年輕女孩的呼救之聲。正義和道德驅(qū)使大衛(wèi)決定解救這名可憐的女孩，卻不知道他的這一行為將在場的所有人推入了萬劫不復的深淵之中。

　　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.