宍戸里帆 Riho Endless world

　　全球突然出现了很多来自宇宙巨大的“入口”，世界一片混乱、陷入危机。这些扭曲现实的入口为何出现，它们的另一端是？

　　讲述了地产集团二公子宋以昭为了争夺继承权，隐瞒身份，住进了夏天旅馆的阁楼，成为夏南笙的房客，意在拿下旅馆的拆迁同意书。随着宋以昭的入住，旅馆经历了种种麻烦，高傲自大的宋以昭与大大咧咧的夏南笙之间，发生了一系列啼笑皆非的事情。当宋以昭发现自己爱上夏南笙的时候，拆迁同意书已经被哥哥宋修获取，拆迁的挖掘机也已经开到了旅馆的门口，知道真相的夏南笙决定与宋以昭决裂....

　　标题中的「ぶぶ漬け（お茶漬け）どうどす」是一句众所周知的京都表达，京都人常用这句话以委婉的方式传达「差不多该告辞了」的意思。电影《ぶぶ漬けどうどす》以此为主题，展现了因京都特有的县民性而引发的各种闹剧，并展开了一段充满喜剧色彩的故事。影片以从东京嫁到京都老字号扇子店的自由撰稿人澁澤まどか为主人公，描绘了〈京都人〉与从东京而来的〈外地人〉之间的攻防与冲突。

　　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.