妻子保卫战

　　太平洋某座生物研究所内，最新研究的鱼类加速繁殖计划得到了突破，并在繁殖力极低的鲨鱼身上试验成功。实验室的科学家们大喜过望，称这项研究将彻底解决全球食物问题。只有总负责人博士袁聪认为此举会破坏现有的生态环境，力排众议下令销毁实验鲨鱼。然而实验组的副手莫雷将这些鲨鱼看成毕生心血，偷走几条幼鲨准备转移，谁知在路上被咬伤出了事故，幼鲨逃进下水道进入了大海。没过多久，若干处海边出现鲨鱼群体袭击事件，原来这些鲨鱼的背后有一只超级巨大的母鲨......

　　A small town in the south is ravaged by a serial killer, with everyone being a suspect including the police.

　　位于东京的某区，山野一家三口过着富庶自在的生活。2010年9月3日，姐姐春花（青山伦子 饰）从美国归来，此前她在旅行中遭遇一场车祸，致令双腿严重骨折。弟弟幸一（中村苍 饰）是个开朗阳光的大男孩，他拿着新买的摄像机拍下了山野家生活的点点滴滴。由于父亲公务繁忙，平时只有姐弟二人在家。平静的日子并未持续太久，一丝不安便在屋子内肆意弥漫。春花发现，每当次日醒来床边的轮椅便会发生移动。为了探明真相，幸一决定在姐姐的卧房内安置摄像机，监控夜晚的情况。在屏幕前，不可思议的景象接连发生，姐弟俩似乎也陷入恶魔的诅咒中，无法逃脱……　　本片为恐怖片《鬼影实录》的日本版。

　　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.