青春學堂2：寄生和野史

　　影片講述了主人公周云飛因為夢想，踏上了自己的房車之旅，在旅程中他經歷了許多事情，也體會到了很多道理。人生就是一場旅行，你一定要讓你自己的人生，活的精彩，活的有價值。就這樣，周云飛向著他新的人生方向奔赴而去的故事。

　　平安時代，百鬼夜行，封鬼儀式正在右大臣藤原安麻呂府邸進行。安麻呂之女日美子（深田恭子 飾）戎裝登場，一箭命中靶心，引來全場驚嘆。這位被喻為“連鬼都不敢接近”的公主，卻令源博雅（伊藤英明 飾）暗自傾心。天現異象，京都騷動，魍魎橫行。平安京已有四人遇害，民間出現驅鬼術士幻角（中井貴一 飾），日美子亦在異象后開始夢游。博雅為此替右大臣來請安倍晴明（野村萬齋 飾）商談。與此同時，宮廷供奉的出云三神器之一草薙劍也出現了異動。晴明受天皇所托，與博雅開始調查種種異況背后出云與大和的隱秘淵源。　　博雅和夜彈琵琶的神秘少年須佐（市原隼人 飾）相識為樂友，須佐負傷被日美子所救，三人在右大臣府邸相逢。同一時刻，右大臣主動找到晴明，坦白了十八年前天現異象時，大和攻打出云的事實……　　本片為電影《陰陽師》續作。

　　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.

　　開發商曾小智（曾志偉 飾）為人油嘴滑舌，為了買入樓盤謊話說盡，他的競爭對手洪大寶（洪金寶 飾）不遑多讓，二人在經紀人學友（張學友 飾）的牽線下亦敵亦友。曾小智獲悉科威特王子阿里巴巴（林子祥 飾）即將抵港，而王子手中握有一份重建海灣戰爭后家園的巨額開發計劃，為了得到合同，曾小智決定請出自己多年沒有探望過的老爸曾老伯（吳耀漢 飾）配合，打造自己的孝子形象迎合王子。小智和嬌生慣養的妻子咪咪（鄭裕玲 飾）將曾伯從小妹阿芝（關之琳 飾）和丈夫阿輝（梁家輝 飾）家中接出，并擬定多種訓練對父親進行“上層人”的改造。曾老伯苦不堪言，而宴會因洪大寶的介入一再出現狀況，一心求財的曾小智能夠如愿么？　　本片為幫助1991年大陸水災籌備善款而拍攝，其中客串的明星多達上百位。