江南儿媳

 以成为神奇宝贝大师为目标，小智（松本梨香 配音）、小刚（うえだゆうじ 配音）和小光（豊口めぐみ 配音）带着各自的神奇宝贝在世界各地进行艰苦的修业之旅，今天他们历经长途跋涉终于来到了风景秀美的米琪亚镇。在当地一对小兄妹的介绍下，小智一行前往神殿遗址游玩。谁知却遭遇了极其危险的情况。关键时刻，掌管时间的迪亚鲁加和守卫神殿的西娜（北乃きい 配音）、凯宾（岸祐二 配音）帮助了他们，能与神奇宝贝心灵沟通的西娜还熄灭了冥王龙的怒火。从西娜口中得知，创造了世界的神奇宝贝即将苏醒，它不仅会使时空扭曲错乱，还将为世界带来毁灭性的灾难…… 本片为神奇宝贝系列第十二部电影剧场版。

　　玛拉（裴淳华 Rosamund Pike 饰）经营着一家监护人公司，她专门寻找身体情况欠佳同时又无依无靠的老年人下手，通过并不是那么合法的手段令自己成为他们的法定监护人，将他们送进疗养院，之后便可接手和变卖他们的财产和房产，再将所得据为己有。　　某日，玛拉将下一个“吞噬”的目标放在了一位名叫珍妮弗（黛安娜·维斯特 Dianne Wiest 饰）的老太太身上，经调查，珍妮弗没有任何的亲人，同时又拥有着价值不菲的遗产，简直就是他们的最佳“肥羊”。在一番操作之后，珍妮弗被没收手机关进了疗养院，但此时的玛拉和她的恋人兼合伙人弗兰（艾莎·冈萨雷斯 Eiza González 饰）并不知道的是，她们惹上了一个不该惹，也不能惹的人。

　　摄影师工藤太郎在坐飞机的途中发现一架太空囊坠入大海，那正是4个月前离奇失踪的无人木星探测器赫利俄斯7号。回国后的工藤接到陪同开发公司调查队前往塞吉欧岛的工作，而塞吉欧岛正位于赫利俄斯7号坠落地点的附近……　　另一方面，塞吉欧岛突然出现巨大的怪兽，这一切似乎和赫利俄斯7号有关……

　　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.