两个女人在有风景的海滩

　　少女芳江（木口亚矢 饰）本是某艺妓馆内的低等侍女，她潜心伺候身为当家艺妓的姐姐菊奴（长谷部瞳 饰），但是菊奴对她颐指气使，绝情绝义。偶然机会，芳江过人的膂力被影野制铁的少爷影野光（斋藤工 饰）所发掘。影野制铁表面上是一家大型家族式钢铁公司，暗中则受命于国家，担负武器的制造工作。与此同时，其创始人影野拳山（志垣太郎 饰）怀有不可告人的野心，他四处网罗人生失意的女孩，将她们训练成美貌与杀伤力并重的艺妓杀手，甚至通过身体机械化改造来加强女孩们的实力。　　懵懵懂懂的芳江与菊奴被骗进入影野制铁，姐妹俩更被迫互相残杀。在此过程中，她们为了超越对方而不断加强训练和改造，继而成为影野家族不可或缺的机器人杀手。然而随着任务的进行，芳江却渐渐发现亲情的珍贵以及影野家族的丑恶用心……

　　由于杏（平手友梨奈 饰）转往美国的法律事务所，藏前（室毅 饰）失去了负责照看的律师，因此被所长暗示即将终止契约。刚好此时，他得知人气“艺能型律师”樋口新（木南晴夏 饰）正准备从事务所独立开业。藏前随即亲自上门请求：“请务必让我在您手下工作。”在被爽快答应的当场，他慌忙签了文件，却不知道这正是“地狱的开端”。

　　卡洛比安奇和多里亚诺是两个生活拮据的五十多岁男人，他们秉持着“绝不错过最后一杯酒”的人生哲学。在一次偶然的机会中，他们结识了朱利奥，一位性格内向、对人生感到迷茫的建筑学学生。这场看似不经意的邂逅，却逐渐演变成了一场穿越威尼斯平原的混乱公路旅行。　　在旅途中，糟糕的建议、宿醉的困扰以及意料之外的友情，不断挑战朱利奥对人生和爱情的原有计划。这场旅程不仅重新定义了他们彼此的生活，也让朱利奥开始重新思考自己的未来方向。

　　在一个肃杀的夜晚，满身伤痕的女孩西恩娜（艾丽森·兰格 Allison Lange 饰）跌跌撞撞冲入公路。她随即被送往医院，在探员赞恩（詹森·伦敦 Jason London 饰）的询问下，惊魂未定的西恩娜终于说出了那段恐怖经历。　　两周前，她和同在医科大学念书的好友斯科特（B.J. Britt 饰）、杰森（尼克·霍尔莫斯 Nick Holmes 饰）、本（C.J. Thomason 饰）、夏侬等人结伴外出游玩。他们驻留在一所古堡，看似一切充满了刺激和乐趣，但是这份无上喜悦很快便蒙上一层阴影。在他们身后，似乎有一个手执手术刀的夺命医生蠢蠢欲动，死神的脚步越来越近。这群踌躇满志的未来医生，俨然成为了手术台上的致命牺牲品……

　　尼古拉斯·凯奇出演独立制作惊悚片《窥镜》(Looking Glass，暂译)。导演为曾拍摄多部MV及广告的多里·奥斯科维兹，编剧杰里·莱普、马修·怀尔德。一对夫妇在经历生活伤痛后买下了荒郊僻壤一处汽车旅馆，他们此举是为了探秘旅馆一个房间内发生的一系列无法解释的怪事。影片今秋开机。

　　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.