VN.022-于姬Una

　　死党阿华，师爷仔及飞牛三人分别任职于会计，律师楼及警员。他们均喜欢包租婆的女儿蒙珠。一日，阿华知道会有巨额运抵公司及发现有贼人已铺好路线偷款。于是将计就计，他们预先偷走巨款，然后嫁祸给劫匪。虽然钱得手，但全是废纸，而烦恼才刚刚开始……

本片剧情依然围绕遗体送还公司“天使之心”展开。社长伊泽那美得知8年前身亡的恋人或许仍在世而心神动摇。万圣节期间，公司成员奔赴世界各地处理送还事务：有人面对因婴儿猝死而自责的母亲，有人护送突然离世的明星回国，也有人送别在旅途中去世的青年。那美在墨西哥执行任务时，一边处理逝者身后事，一边被旧日恋情的线索牵动，在生死与思念交织中重新审视自己的内心。

 持续在世界各地进行修业之旅的小智（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），历经长途跋涉终于来到了位于山谷丘陵处的目的地阿拉莫斯镇。小镇上耸立着象征时间与空间的时光之塔，新一轮的神奇宝贝竞赛将在塔的下方举行。小智一行走错了路，却由此结识当地的美丽女孩艾丽丝（加藤ローサ 配音）。紧张的战斗与快乐的游玩，却未察觉危险正悄悄逼进。小智遭到噩梦精灵达库莱伊的袭击，虽然达库莱伊被当地所有人讨厌，但是它似乎想将某种危险、恐怖的信息及时传给小智一行，关于时空之塔的秘密即将揭开…… 本片为神奇宝贝系列第十部电影剧场版。

　　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.