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不良街区

　　由一桩荒诞的“卫生巾杀人魔”案件展开，讲述了几个在日本的中国人，阴差阳错地卷入一场黑帮斗争，与日本毒枭斗智斗勇的故事。他们一个是帮派面临倒闭妄图自裁的帮派老大、一个是吊儿郎当的黑导游、 一个是残暴歹毒的黑帮毒枭、一个是唯利是图的歌舞伎町老板、一个是胸怀大志却碌碌无为的警 探，每个人为了达到目的经历了一番复杂而有趣的遭遇。　　主角刚正是一个在日本漂泊的“老炮儿”，亲手建立的帮派日益衰落，试图自裁却意外卷进命案，发现了惊人的秘密。对正义与规矩的坚守，使他选择与日本黑帮毒枭正面对决。

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喷火女郎

　　叉烧（郑丹瑞 饰）是一个不务正业的小青年，整体装神弄鬼骗钱。一天，叉烧的一个租客——在夜总会当妈妈桑的大B（叶德娴 饰）的家里来了一个客人，她美丽的外甥女云云（邱淑贞 饰）。大B用尽千方百计将美丽的云云哄到夜总会当舞女，想着从她身上大赚一笔。一个晚上，黑社会老大炮哥到夜 总会消遣时遇到了云云，炮哥垂涎她的美色，找人把云云捉走了。怎知谁也料不到云云这个弱女子竟然拥有超能力——会喷火，关键时候她用自己的超能力脱身了。不久叉烧就得知了云云的这个本领，于是，一个坏主意计上心头……

大佛普拉斯

 菜埔（庄益增 饰）是一家雕塑厂的夜间保安，家中有一位重病的老母亲需要照顾。肚财（陈竹昇 饰）是菜埔唯一的朋友，菜埔经常在值夜班的时候把肚财叫过来和他作伴。一天，两人突发奇想决定看一看菜埔的老板黄启文（戴立忍 饰）的行车记录仪里记录了哪些影像，希望向来风流的老板能够贡献出一些精彩的片段以解两个独身男人内心里的寂寞之苦。行车记录仪所记录的影像果然没有让菜埔和肚财失望，但与此同时，两人也发现了黄启文的许多不可告人的秘密。实际上，菜埔和肚财的一举一动皆没有逃过黄启文的眼睛，为了保住自己的地位和名声，他决定采取一些必要的行动。

恐惧之灵

一名男子在郊区一间空荡荡的房子里醒来，没有记忆，手臂上沾着血迹。当他疯狂地洗掉血迹时，他发现那不是他的。他在房子周围发现了一些便利贴，上面写着:“不要呆在这个房间里。”“别出去。”“别下楼。”他感到困惑，试图追踪这些神秘的信息，最终发现了两件事。他与母亲和女儿的记忆有某种联系，还有住在这所郊区房子里的恶魔。当他越来越接近解开他为什么在那里的谜团时，恶魔变得越来越强大，考验着他的生存意志。

等待方舟

　　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.

川流不“熄”

 故事发生在2008年北京奥运会前夕，参加过朝鲜战争的退伍老兵张大川（杨新鸣 饰），与儿子一家生活在中国南方的一个小镇上，虽然同住一个屋檐下但关系并不亲密。一天，大川接到老战友去世的电话，于是他决定独自前往北京，参加战友的葬礼。这个计划，被正值青春叛逆期的孙子小松（胡昌霖 饰）发现，小松恳求和威胁爷爷带他一起去。争执之后，从未单独出过远门的祖孙俩上路了.......