亲切的家政妇

　　显赫富商一原高显（北村总一朗 饰）病故，他的亲属们齐齐来到高级日式客栈“回廊亭”举行断七法事，当然最令他们关心的还是遗产分配事宜。每个人都心怀鬼胎，渴望获得最大利益，也格外防备着其他人的算计，所谓亲情变得不值一提。就在这一关键时刻，一名神秘而美艳的女子突然出现在一原家面前，她自称本间美代子（常盘贵子 饰），是与死者生前颇有渊源的老婆婆的女儿。夜深人静，做梦发财的贪婪之人没有等到他们的遗产，反而等来死神的光临。破灭的爱情，破败的人生，曾经种下的恶缘种子，在回廊亭开始发芽。　　本片根据东野圭吾的原作小说改编。

1916年，第一次世界大战在西线激烈进行，约克郡拉姆斯登的合唱协会失去了大部分男性成员，他们都应征入伍了。雄心勃勃的委员会决心继续前行，决定招募本地的年轻男性来填补队伍空缺。同时，他们还必须聘请一位新的合唱指挥，最有希望的人选是亨利·格思里博士（拉尔夫·费因斯 饰）——一个意志坚定、毫不妥协、刚从德国音乐生涯归来的男人。随着征兵通知陆续送达，全社区的人逐渐意识到，在战争摧毁一切的混乱中，最有力的回应就是：一起奏响音乐。

　　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.

　　未来某城市，艺校姑娘然然（柳田 饰）常带邻家小孩豆豆（赵梦洋 饰）玩耍，不料在一起偶然事件中豆豆丢失，她焦急万分。此时，城市上空降临UFO，宇航局安全处派出的特工莫名其妙失去了记忆。局长（王鹰 饰）让侦察员叶云（李艺 饰）观看监视录像，录像中似有一个类似豆豆的身影出现，但很快便消失了。与此同时，班上来了一个酷似豆豆的学生李大米，他随身携带一个神奇的游戏光盘，如果谁玩光盘大喊“神奇的兔子”，不可思议的事情发生了，兔子竟然跳到人的身上，兔形浸入人的衣服和皮肤，而人也变的疯狂暴唳。然然因拒绝玩此游戏，疯狂的兔子弄坏了她的乐器。原来，西伯尔星球科学家劫持了豆豆并改变了其大脑，改名换姓派回地球作恶......

　　该片是马特·帕尔默的导演处女作，故事讲述两个毕生好友前往一个孤立的苏格兰高地村庄进行周末狩猎，然而他们面对接下来所发生的事情毫无准备。

　　大老板(陈龙饰)所困的不法山客栈迎来了一群不一般的客官，这其中，来势汹汹的西域人究竟是何身份?群妖汇集在此蠢蠢欲动又所图为何?而路经此地的唐僧师徒四人又将变幻何人才能骗过众人耳目?在这座无法使用法力的神秘客栈，一场惊心动魄的西游版“狼人杀”即将拉开序幕。