二郎神之怒天神将

　　ユダヤの伝説「巨人ゴーレム」にヒントを得て製作した大映のSFXスペクタクル時代劇シリーズ第3弾。荒川飛騨守は近隣諸国を侵略しようと、村人たちを捕え武器作りに酷使していた。残された子供たちは、“魔神の山”を越える決死の旅立ちを決意するが…。

　　近未来，神秘症状在人群间扩散，恐惧在空气中曼延。原因不明，只知感染者初期会产生骨骼变异，身体长出毛皮或鳞片，原有人类特质将逐步退化。政府束手无策，只能强制收管已兽化的感染者。方苏瓦深信挚爱的妻子还在那张突变的面孔底下，无论她被转到多远的收容所，他都带着青春期的儿子艾米搬迁跟随。尝试融入新班级的艾米，却意外发现身体也出现了难以启齿的变化⋯⋯

　　少女科学家珊曼莎是地球经历末世浩劫后的幸存者之一。她并未随着他人弃守家园，反而留在地球，并致力寻找让人类生存下去的方法。
　　在最后一艘宇宙飞船开往遥远人类太空殖民地之际，她留守的决心因为另一位幸存者麦卡的到来而动摇。她必须决定要与麦卡一起出发到人类避难之所开展新生活，还是继续留下来保卫地球。

　　一个阳光明媚的夏日午后，人们悠闲自在的在海边嬉戏，一名男青年提议下水比赛，然而大家并不知道，隐藏在水下的恐怖生物正在蠢蠢欲动，三名青年争相下水，就在大家玩闹之时，三头鲨张开了血盆大口，瞬间海水被鲜血染红，惊慌失措的游人只得尽快逃离海岸。 　　Maggie（卡鲁切·特兰 饰）是刚来这个小镇的研究员，刚刚毕业的她心怀一腔热情，她所在的研究所正在研究海洋垃圾对生态造成的影响，研究中他们发现正是环境的破坏导致了一些海洋生物的变异……

　　在神秘的阿鲁普斯雪山上，K大学登山部的几名成员离奇失踪。为了寻找同伴，登山部其他成员在搜查主任（千葉一郎 饰）的带领下进入山中寻找遇难者，经历了无数艰难险阻，然而真正的磨难还等在前方。某晚，队员们遭遇了传说中的雪男（相良三四郎 饰），名叫饭岛高志（宝田明 饰）的年轻人紧紧追赶，却被靠捕捉动物牟取暴利的大场（小杉義男 饰）一伙推落山崖。饭岛得到原始部落女孩知花（根岸明美 饰）的救助，然而又被蒙昧的村民吊在悬崖之间。以此为机缘，饭岛得以雪男，并对这个长着恐怖丑陋面容的怪物有了新的认识。另一方面，大场则试图捉住雪男大发其财……
　　本片根据香山滋的科幻小说改编，因涉及原始部落近亲相奸等敏感话题，导致相当长一段时间发行受阻，直到2009年才以各种媒介的形式广泛发行。

　　2002年冬天，横浜大桥突然被战斗机炸毁，媒体虽然报导此为自卫队战机所为，但实际上这架战机却并不存在。民众广泛对自卫队产生了不信任感。特车二课第二小队的后藤（大林隆介 配音）队长察觉此事与在99年的那场事件中失踪的自卫队队员柘植有关——1999年，日本陆上自卫队的机器人 小队在一次联合国维和行动中遭到全歼。而柘植是特车二课第一小队队长南云（榊原良子 配音）原来的恋人。民众的不信任感达到了顶峰，处于戒严状态的东京面临着大骚乱，人们被即将爆发战争的危机笼罩着。在自卫队王牌队员荒川的帮助下，后藤（大林隆介 配音）和南云追查到了柘植的下落。后藤招集起泉（富永美伊奈 配音）、篠原（古川登志夫 配音）等特车二课原来的成员们，启动PATLABOR机器人进攻柘植的根据地……
　　本片是押井守导演推出了《机动警察PATLABOR》的第二部剧场版。

　　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.