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本片改编自吉田为了采访3年，穿着歌舞伎的黑衣进入后台的经验而写出的长篇小说，出生于任侠一门、投身于歌舞伎世界、将青春献给演艺之路的喜久雄，赌上自己的生命去追求无尽的梦想的宏伟故事：舞台是从战后到高度经济成长期的日本。出生于任侠家族的喜久雄，遭遇了数奇的命运，被拽到歌舞伎演员的家中。不久后，在动荡的人生中，他作为歌舞伎演员的才能开花结果。

　　一次演奏会上，小提琴家瑞安（莱斯利•尼尔森 Leslie Nielsen 饰）邂逅了美艳妇人劳伦（凯丽•勒布克 Kelly LeBrock 饰），劳伦对他大抛媚眼，吓得瑞安不知所措。联合国秘书长罗伯特将到哥伦比亚作反恐演讲，劳伦的丈夫希宾负责安排一切。这天瑞安收到了劳伦的邀请，并注明如果他不前来她将自杀。揣揣不安的瑞安如约来到了劳伦的别墅，却发现希宾早已倒地身亡。突然，一名独眼独臂独腿的男人出现将瑞安击晕了。　　当瑞安醒来后，他已被警察抓了起来，荒谬的是，瑞安谋杀希宾的罪名成立了。尽管他一再分辩，但他还是被押往监狱。途中囚车意外翻下了山崖，大难不死的瑞安开始了亡命天涯，他一方面要逃避追捕，一方面要设法找证据还自己一个清白！

　　青年休·麦克艾利斯特（Brandon Kyle Peters 饰）按照未婚妻未婚妻劳瑞·苏利文（Danielle Lilley 饰）的意愿，在远离喧嚣都市的僻静角落买了一座数十款长的大房子。乔迁当日，劳瑞对新房子既满意又惊奇，稍后没多久，马克（Jose Miguel Vasquez 饰）、安柏（Emily Cutting 饰）、肯尼斯（Christopher de Padua 饰）等朋友驱车前来，准备为小两口开一个盛大的乔迁派对。马可他们百无聊赖，四处闲逛，结果强行进入一个无人居住的旧房子。青年男女百无禁忌，四处闲逛，根本不知自己已经惹到了什么。夜幕降临，喜欢热闹的男女们纷纷云集到休的新居，大开狂欢派对。喜欢肯尼斯的女孩独自落寞地再次来到那栋空房子，谁知却被隐藏在这里的恐怖之人残忍杀害。　　那边厢狂欢无度，这边厢血腥杀戮的闸门缓缓开启……

　　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.