再见 / 宫城由良[HIGR-046]

　　越战期间（实际应该是入侵巴拿马）美军秘密研制的机器人代号黑金刚突然暴走。一队雇佣军潜入丛林进行搜索。大部分被干掉。最后队长与黑金刚决一死战时发现黑金刚其实是自己昔日战友改造而成。黑金刚在最后关头回心转意，启动自我毁灭。。。。

　　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.

　　科学万能の現代、だが未だ地球上には解明できぬ謎が残されている……。東北地方に、婆羅陀魏山神という神をまつる村があった。訪れた調査隊はそこで生ける神・バラダキを目撃する。それは湖に棲息する中生代の恐竜・バランであった。急遽出動した自衛隊の攻撃を逃れ、バランは空へと舞い上がる。やがて姿を現したバランは、浦賀水道から東京上陸を狙う。３６ミリ機関砲さえ跳ね返すバランに対し、自衛隊はダイナマイトの２０倍もの威力を誇る特殊火薬をもって対抗するが……。ミニチュアワークは相変わらず冴えているが、“未知の謎”を主題にしているわりにはストーリーが平板。冒頭からバランの全身を出し、その破壊力の描写に終始している感がある。資料によっては「東洋の怪物」のサブタイトルも見受けられるが、フィルム・クレジット上には存在しない。

　　本片将更加忠实詹姆斯·奥·巴尔的同名漫画。讲述摇滚乐手埃里克·德雷文（比尔·斯卡斯加德 Bill Skarsgård 饰）和他的未婚妻雪莉（小枝女孩 FKA twigs 饰）被残忍杀害。一年后，埃里克从坟墓中苏醒，并进行复仇。复活后的埃里克拥有着超自然的力量，而他所到之处必定有乌鸦跟随。

在二战后尚未归还日本的冲绳岛上，有一群人自可怕的「铁暴风」中幸存下来。他们像动物般活在残破的世界，眼前是垂死的岛民和尸体。于是他们从美军的仓库和基地抢夺物资，延续这座岛上未完的战争，他们被叫做「战果捞客」。直到那一夜，阿恩（永山瑛太 饰）在嘉手纳基地的逃亡过程中神秘失踪，一场曾将故乡烧毁殆尽的铁暴风再度席卷这座岛屿而来。 「活下去，生还才是最大的战果。」多年之后，岛上女孩接连惨遭杀害，一名菜鸟琉球警察（妻夫木聪 饰）奉令侦办命案。追捕疑犯的过程中，在凶手车子里发现的人骨和一名神秘出现的男孩，让他儿时身为战果捞客的记忆与一道道未解谜团又重回脑海。

简和伴侣的森林之旅出了岔子，当一个陌生人出现并质疑他们关系的真实性时，她开始怀疑自己是否真正掌握了现实的全部真相。