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 珠仁17岁的时光，是热切投入青涩的恋爱，和好友打闹笑谈对性的好奇，替任职幼儿园校长的甩碌阿妈善后，闲时练跆拳道和做义工挥洒满身活力。某日，同学发起联署，反对出狱在即的强奸犯重回社区，只有珠仁一个不肯签名。她冲口而出的一句话，令她周遭的世界起了剧烈变化。那边厢，幼儿园小女孩身上的瘀青，不禁令人起疑.…..尹佳恩导演一向擅拍儿童，早获奉俊昊力赞为下一代大师级人马，此次探索少女内心幽微更见精准细腻，新人徐粹彬的演出展现惊人层次和魅力。看似平凡的青春日常，幻化成对创伤、韧性和连接的动人描绘，悄无声息地撼动心灵。

 叙述日本人潜伏中国武馆，化装红衣蒙面人，屡次暗杀立志北伐的爱国志士，后来被揭穿的悬疑武打故事。这片子真可以当成侦破片来看，武馆的人一个一个被杀，凶手究竟是谁...

　　「フランケンシュタイン対地底怪獣」の姉妹編。クローン生物のフランケンシュタインが、より怪獣的になり、分裂によって山の怪獣サンダと海の怪獣ガイラの2体に分かれる。心優しい兄のサンダと人間を食う凶暴な弟のガイラが、骨肉相食む死闘を演じる。2匹の死闘は都市を中心に展開され、従来脇役に徹してきた自衛隊が、今回は生命の細胞までも焼きつくす殺人光線兵器・メーサー光線砲戦車を登場させ、互角の闘いを演じる。この日・米合作によるフランケンシュタイン2部作は、当時の怪獣ブームから、人間不在の怪獣トーナメント化した怪獣映画に一石を投じたが、本流にはならなかった。

　　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.