待绽蔷薇 Starlet (2012)

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。

　　东汉末年，精通风水阴阳、堪舆演星之术的乔二被迫与夫人下入墓穴探取长生石，然而墓穴坍塌众人被埋入地下。再次醒来的乔二发现自己到了民国年代，对当代社会一窍不通的他偶遇了与妻子长相一样的小飞莺。靠着众人的协助，乔二将再次下墓寻找自己的爱人。

　　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.

　　在现代都市里，居然出了奇怪的大事。某日从天降下一位怪人，而且自称财仙（谭咏麟），为了逃避群众追赶，而凑巧遇上了茶室老板及其女儿爱玲、儿子彬彬。随即他变被打扮成时代青年财仙，替老板解决了不少难题，更积极传播真理，让身边的人人都能幸福快乐。后来，财仙为救汽车失事的爱玲，使用法力抢救但似的自己变成凡人。而后更遭太空署人员围捕，幸得众人齐心救援，方才遇难呈祥、逢凶化吉。　　香港天皇级的歌手谭咏麟早期80年代的电影作品。谭咏麟虽然凭《假如我是真的》夺得第十八届金马奖男主角，但是要数出他的代表作也不容易。因为他所主演的片子大多走搞笑路线，观众大多笑完即止。不过其中《小生怕怕》、《少爷威威》、《恭喜发财》也算得上当时优秀的喜剧作品，而且对于在乐坛上作全力冲刺的谭咏麟来说，能出演40多部电影，也可算是一个神话。延续了此前《小生怕怕》、《少爷威威》等片的商业热力，本片推出后也大获成功，赢得了接近两千万的高票房，站到了年度卖座电影的前五名之内。故事的结局和所有的贺岁片如出一辙，同样是皆大欢喜。乐呵呵的看完电影，但演员们的精彩表现还是让人津津乐道，至今翻看起来仍旧能回味无穷。

　　1971年，印度与巴基斯坦之间在东巴解放战争之间的紧张局势日益紧张，巴基斯坦海军在一个高级秘密任务中计划袭击印度雄伟级航空母舰INS Vikrant，以控制孟加拉湾的水域 。 他们派出一流的潜艇PNS Ghazi(加齐号/勇士号)，但被印度潜艇INS Karanj（S21）拦截。 随后发生水下攻击。

营销高管布拉德与伊莱贾，为拿下世界杯顶级赞助，提出了一个大胆到离谱的避孕套品牌合作提案。本以为能一战成名，却因一场酒后失控的丑闻，彻底沦为全民公敌。为了保住性命、全身而退，两人被迫开启横跨全球的疯狂逃亡，在体育营销界的乱象中，用更疯狂的操作，躲过接踵而至的麻烦与追杀。