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.

　　結束了德川幕府的統治，明治政府巍然確立。當年叱咤風云的“劊子手”釜田十兵衛（渡邊謙 飾），作為幕府余黨在荒蕪寒冷的北海道過起隱姓埋名的生活。他當年對亡妻許下封印殺人刀的約定，通過勞作養活自己和兩個孩子，但殘酷的生存環境仍讓他感到力不從心。這一日，十兵衛當年的戰友馬場金吾（柄本明 飾）前來造訪。原來附近一座小鎮上，美麗的妓女夏目（忽那汐里 飾）被粗暴的女人毀容，但是警察署長大石一藏（佐藤浩市 飾）卻包庇縱容。夏目的同伴們湊錢尋找賞金殺手，無奈膽敢來犯的人們均被大石殘暴摧折。為了改善孩子們的生活，十兵衛和馬場上路，并在路上結識了懷著同一個目標的阿伊努族青年（柳樂優彌 飾）。三人一路同行，等待他們的將是未知的命運……　　本片翻拍自克林特·伊斯特伍德的同名之作。

　　1963年，在位于美國的伊利諾斯州的霍登平原市。陰暗恐怖的夜色籠罩著這座死寂的小城市，一起奇異的慘案就在黑暗當中發生了：梅爾斯家里只有六歲大小的邁克爾·梅爾斯（達格·法奇飾），殘忍的用棒球棒將母親的男朋友一棍一棍的錘成了肉泥，然后又將自己的姐姐以及姐姐的男朋友一同肢解得支離破碎、慘不忍睹……　　事實上，這個特別的小男孩兒在一生來似乎從面孔到內心就充滿了深深的邪惡與仇恨。而令所有人萬萬沒有想到的是男孩剛剛長到他6歲這一年便瘋狂般地露出了他猙獰的惡魔臉孔。而每一年象征著“群魔亂舞”的萬圣節似乎也成了他活躍異常的時刻。　　根據美國當地的法律，未成年人殺人并不會受到警方更嚴厲的制裁，最終裁定將這個心靈扭曲的少年送到了精神療養所進行看管。在那里，一個名叫薩米爾·魯米斯的醫生負責調教和看管惡魔男孩兒。從未見識過如此兇殘的兒童的魯米斯想盡一切辦法接近這個可怕少年的心靈，試圖去影響、改變他的一切。但醫生做的所有嘗試都最終以失敗而告終。邁克爾·梅爾斯是一個極其頑固的邪惡的載體，他沒有理智、毫無人性可言，有的只是日益強悍的身體和越來越強烈的暴虐和不斷增長的殺戮欲望——薩米爾·魯米斯最后也意識到了這點，但似乎所有這一切都已經為時太晚了。　　在被關押了漫長的十七年之后，已經“長大成人”的邁克爾·梅爾斯憑借強壯的身體終于找到機會逃出了逼仄的牢籠。壓抑已久的仇復與殺戮的惡魔之心終于得到了釋放的機會，他迫不及待的回到霍登平原市，去尋找他唯一真正愛護過的妹妹勞瑞。　　這一切的真相，只有薩米爾·魯米斯知道，老醫生深知他的目的所在；也只有薩米爾·魯米斯知道，任何不幸遭遇惡魔邁克爾·梅爾斯的人都將以最慘痛的方式付出自己的生命做代價。如今，留給他的時間已經不多，他要竭盡全力去警告無知的人們，并保護這家人唯一的希望——勞瑞。與此同時，為了所有其他人的無辜性命，魯米斯還要拼盡全力找到并控制住瘋狂的邁克爾·梅爾斯。尤其是每當月黑風高的萬圣節之夜悄悄降臨時……

　　攝影師麗莎突然失蹤。最后的線索指向她拍攝過的七個足球場——它們散落在格魯吉亞七個偏遠村莊。父親伊拉克利踏遍這些球場尋女，麗莎的摯友、如幽靈般的列瓦尼悄然加入搜尋。每當球場更迭，相遇的村民與他們的故事便如走馬燈般輪轉。看似荒誕的旅程里暗涌漸起：每踏過一片坑洼的草場，每穿過 一座寂靜村莊，找到麗莎的希望便如晨霧般日漸稀薄。