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故事围绕的士司机宇佐美浩二（木村拓哉 饰）展开，他每日奔波于都市间工作养家，却因女儿的学费、的士验车费、房屋租金等接踵而至的现实压力而身心俱疲。某日，浩二接到一项特别的委托——接载年迈的高野堇女士（倍赏千惠子 饰）从东京柴又前往神奈川叶山的养老院。“在离开东京之前，想先到几个想去的地方看看”，堇女士淡然请求。随着的士驶过日本的大街小巷，陌生的两人逐渐打开心扉，堇女士也徐徐道出自己跌宕的人生过往。这趟偶然的旅程，不仅触动了他们的心灵，也让二人在平凡的日子中，为彼此的人生留下难忘的美好印记。

　　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.

杰弗里（凯尔·麦克拉克伦 Kyle MacLachlan 饰）为了照料父亲而回到了久违的家乡小镇，哪知道在误打误撞之中令一场凶杀案件浮出水面，杰弗里就此结识了负责调查此案的警察威廉斯（乔治·迪克森 George Dickerson 饰），以及他的女儿桑迪（劳拉·邓恩 Laura Dern 饰）。桑迪告诉杰弗里，时间的真相或许和一个名叫多萝西（伊莎贝拉·罗西里尼 Isabella Rossellini 饰）的歌女有关。　　美丽神秘的多萝西很快就令杰弗里失去了理智，他偷偷的潜入了多萝西家中，恰巧发现了多萝西正在被一个名为弗兰克（丹尼斯·霍珀 Dennis Hopper 饰）的黑帮大佬虐待的事实。此时的杰弗里才开始意识到，在自己的视线范围之外，发生着很多黑暗而又罪恶的可怕之事。

　　一个故障百出的 AI 机械人正面临被淘汰的命运，却因爱上一个女人而躲进一个男人的血肉之躯，用尽千方百计夺取芳心。