妖艳女忍者传之锷女篇

等待方舟

　　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.

审判游戏

　　An 80-year-old man with a penchant for real life games in a story about rights and wrongs. It's a story about the decisions one makes in their lifetime and the fact that every decision has its repercussions, hearing and judgment.

密探2025

　　1977年，在被军事独裁统治折磨的巴西，四十多岁的马塞洛逃离了他混乱的过去，来到累西腓，希望在这里建立新的生活并与家人重修旧好。然而，他并未料到死亡威胁如影随形，笼罩在他的头顶。

全面开战：兄弟会

在恐惧状态下，兄弟会成员面临着一个关键时刻，他们的主要领导人被转移到最高安全级别的监狱，威胁着该组织的稳定。Elisa（Camilla Damião饰）是兄弟会创始人Edson（Seu Jorge饰）的18岁女儿，在犯罪边缘长大，被腐败的警察绑架。当她的阿姨克里斯蒂娜（纳鲁娜·科斯塔饰）试图营救她时，该团伙下令进入“恐惧状态”，对警察局和安全部队发动一波暴力袭击，使圣保罗市陷入混乱。在动荡之中，Elisa和Cristina努力应对正义和暴力的困境，因为过去和现在的选择相互碰撞，塑造了他们的命运。

诅咒：纳扎尔

眠狂四郎

在将军德川家齐统治下的文政年间，老中水野忠成与水野忠邦在幕府内展开激烈的权力斗争。此时，携带名刀“无想正宗”的神秘浪人眠狂四郎（长谷川博己 饰）现身江户，并受忠邦的亲信之命，暗中刺杀刺客。被他斩杀的刺客颈上佩戴着象征基督信仰的念珠。随后，狂四郎将此物交还给刺客的妹妹静香，引发信徒与豪商备前屋的反击，双方为守护与暗杀而对立。另一方面，大目付松平主水正也奉忠成之命，派遣剑豪追杀狂四郎。权谋与信仰交织，一场错综复杂的生死之战即将展开。