有机体的秘密

　　本集收录新作《造了不开启的房间》《有内情的KTV》及过去二十年名作选《交出手臂》《身后的女人》《深夜的镜像》《悬崖下》《书本招来的幽灵》《出租车司机的经历》《多出一人的电梯》《颜之道》。

　　在毫无征兆的一个晴朗日子，一枚导弹笔直飞来，将国际大都会东京都内极具代表性的彩虹桥炸为两截。该事件在都内引起不小的骚动，此后不久，警视厅公安部外事三课的警部高畑慧（高岛礼子 饰）带着相关视频资料找到藤田继次（筧利夫 饰）所统率的特车二课，经分析发现这次袭击来自于那架自卫队不久前失窃的新型战斗直升机AH-88J2改“灰色幽灵（Grey Ghost）”。经高畑之口得知，该恐怖事件与拓植行人、灰原零（森カンナ 饰）有直接的关系。而在纷乱的实践中，特车二课则面临着被撤消的危险。　　东京一千万人口沦为暴动分子的人质，面对前所未有的危机，泉野明（真野惠里菜 饰）和她的LABOR能否力挽狂澜？

　　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.

　　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？