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　　現代東京，三位女性——愛、瑪麗、杏珠——在繁忙與孤獨的⽣活中尋找愛與⾃我。某⽇，她們⼀同前往溫泉旅⾏，在閃爍的燈光與笑聲之間，⼀道神秘的閃光將她們帶入時空裂縫。當她們再次睜眼，眼前已成為⼀個充滿異⾊與絢爛的幻夢世界——「仮想・吉原」。在這座融合江⼾、⼤正與現代意象的花街中，她們分別化身為花魁「三浦太夫」、「薄桜」、「富⼠太夫」，成為欲望、權⼒與愛情交錯的舞台中⼼。

　　故事讲述鲍伯刚和恋情长跑的女友分手，心碎不已时巧遇一只可爱到不行的流浪猫，而鲍伯好友克拉伦斯更被小猫萌翻，两人给小猫取名‘Keanu’，而‘百炼钢化为绕指柔’大男人从此化身猫奴，每天陪猫、爱猫，与猫为伍。某天鲍伯的家被流氓集团闯空门，更惨的是他们的爱猫‘Keanu’竟然被绑架！为了营救爱猫，两人决定混入贩卖毒品的圈子，为方便接近流氓集团......

　　改編自著名推理作家南希．皮卡德於《紐約時報》的暢銷同名小說　　過往的父母雙屍命案,因為殺人兇手出獄而再度成為喬蒂的噩夢,她被迫再次審視那道往日的傷痕,並且身不由己地反覆被仇恨啃噬…而家族秘辛也隨著時間過去,重新露出面目,要讓所有人都付出代價…。

　　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.