通奸

　　Shipwreck survivors are found on Beiru Island (Infanto tô), which was previously used for atomic tests. The interior is amazingly free of radiation effects, and they believe that they were protected by a special juice that was given to them by the island's residents. A joint expedition of Rolisican and Japanese scientists explores Beiru and discovers many curious things, including two women only one foot (30 centimeters) high. Unscrupulous expedition leader Clark Nelson abducts the women and puts them in a vaudeville show. But their sweet singing contains a telepathic cry for help to Mothra, a gigantic moth that is worshiped as a deity by the island people. The giant monster heeds the call of the women and heads to Tokyo, wreaking destruction in its path.

　　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.

　　《在断崖下》：青年蒲冈大辉（伊藤淳史 饰）将车停在悬崖旁和女友幽会，突然一股神秘的力量将汽车推向悬崖；《6号房间》：女高中生久保有纱（堀北真希 饰）和长泽美奈子等朋友去唱卡拉OK，自从她们使用过诡异的6号房间后，美奈子就变得分外怪异；《不可思议的时间》：为了赶上即将进行的世界杯比赛转播，小职员白石大吾（平冈祐太 饰）匆匆搭上一辆计程车，却在很短的时间内经历了一段漫长的旅程；《四叠半的贵妇人》：森三中的大岛美幸买到一只精致的茶杯，随茶杯一同来到她家的还有一个身穿洋装的贵妇人；《体验者》：市场调研人员今泉诚一（高岛政伸 饰）在某超市调查期间，发现店员似乎正被某个看不见的女人所侵扰；《病栋的绒毛玩具》：某所医院有一只泰迪熊毛绒玩具，所有把玩它的老人都回去世。

　　因为儿子尹泰宇（元斌 饰）是智障，所以母亲（金惠子 饰）总是担心他受伤。一天，泰宇被一辆奔驰车撞倒，朋友镇泰（秦久 饰）带他去高尔夫球场找打球的教授报仇，结果被带回了警局。因为镇泰踢坏了后视镜，教授向他们索赔，泰宇被当成了挡箭牌。 从警局出来后，在家吃过晚饭，泰宇去找镇泰喝酒，但此时镇泰趁着夜色回到球场找出了白天扔进湖中的球杆。泰宇酒后尾随一个名叫文雅中的女学生，结果第二天雅中的尸体就出现在屋顶。泰宇被当做唯一的嫌疑人带回了警局，接着在警察的威胁下画押认罪。得知儿子入狱，心急如焚的母亲委托著名律师为他翻案。但是，泰宇的病影响了他的记忆，母亲在替儿申冤的道路上步履蹒跚……