六個瑞典女人在紅燈區

葛飾應為生活在藝術幾乎完全由男性主導的江戶時代，盡管她是北齋之女，但仍作為屈指可數的女性畫師活躍于畫壇。她擁有連北齋都稱贊“在美人畫方面勝我一籌”的繪畫天賦，同時性格火爆、剛強、煙不離手，是個豪爽灑脫的女性形象。                                                                      　　《喂，應為》的主人公阿榮是北齋的女兒、得力助手，展現了驚人的繪畫天賦。她從父親那里獲得了“葛飾應為”這一畫號，這個名字源于北齋常常喊她“喂，飯來！”“喂，筆來！”等日常呼喚，“應”代表回應，“為”則有作為、成就之意，是從師父傳給弟子的名號，也是父親傳給女兒的象征。盡管她不會泡茶，也不擅長針線活，卻以繼承自父親的繪畫才華與膽識，在男性社會中闖出一條路。

　　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.

　　時空的轉換，現在與未來的穿梭，都在杰克（亞德里安·布洛迪 Adrien Brody 飾）身上神奇的發生著。他本來是一個參與過海灣戰爭的美國軍人。意外中彈令他喪失了記憶，成為一個失憶者。繼而更倒霉的是，他被警方認作殺人疑犯拉回審訊。因為判定為精神疾病，杰克免于坐牢，只是被帶到精神病院，作為某項科學實驗的樣品。　　醫生為杰克穿上了緊身衣物，把他放進停尸間。這里黑暗冰冷，只剩下零散的記憶碎片陪伴杰克。碎片中有著他將來的模樣，有著一個心愛的叫杰基（凱拉·奈特利 Keira Knightley飾）的女子，更有著自己快要死去的訊息。在記憶中看到將來的杰克，在一線希望中尋找著通往生機的鑰匙。

　　據日本警方統計，每年僅提交申請的失蹤人口就達10萬人，其中9萬人的行蹤可疑確認，但仍有1萬人下落不明。位于遠郊的一座深山叢林，似乎具有著強烈的魔性，無數人進入這里，從此消失無蹤。少女繭（日南響子 飾）偶然和父親目擊一輛綁架了少女的車，父女倆一路追蹤，走上了不歸之途；家庭主婦真奈（桐島れいか 飾）十年前曾在林中丟失長女，如今他的小女兒阿櫻離家上學后也一去不返；正在拍攝恐怖電影的新人女演員麗奈（飛鳥凜 飾）結束工作后，不得不穿越那座恐怖的森林，其中的景象與聲音令她戰栗不已；小女孩薰（藤本七海 飾）受托照顧鄰家的孩子，可是她卻遭遇了一個恐怖的人形。　　不同的人，不同的故事，同樣的恐怖……