本片以紀實風格再現了1938年到1945年抗日聯軍第六軍被服廠女兵，傷兵醫院傷兵組成的留守團在主力部隊西征后堅持在老游擊區牽制敵人主力，于重重圍剿中突圍，進入蘇聯整訓，整編為抗聯第88教導旅打回東北的真實故事。　　影片透過12歲女戰士李童的視角，塑造了耿團長、裴大姐、白連長、金玉希、李亦奇等一批普通抗聯男女戰士在突圍中拼死互相保護，犧牲、被俘、最終生還的殘酷歷程。　　本片改編自最后一個離世的抗聯女戰士李敏撰寫的回憶錄。　　這是第一次用電影方式講述了抗聯后期從突圍到整編為教導旅再到打回東北的全過程。

 這部在歌舞片發展早期拍攝的影片，堪稱是當時最為奢華的好萊塢巨制。影片由后來被譽為“爵士之王”的保羅·懷特曼領銜主演，還請到了一眾歌舞名手。片中的內容取自百老匯的經典演出，通過名家和管弦樂隊的出色演繹，為觀眾感受爵士年代風情提供了一次珍貴的機會。影片在當年獲得了奧斯卡最佳藝術指導獎。2013年，它還被美國國會圖書館列入國家電影目錄。

　　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.

　　1963年，一伙黑幫分子在老大的指使下將一對情人殘忍殺害，男子被埋在“十世受苦，不得超生”的陰穴處；而女子被扒皮，皮罩在燈籠上，永世不得超生。　　1993年，蠱惑仔阿輝（梁家輝 飾）終日倒霉透頂，而且身邊連連發生奇怪靈異世間。阿輝在古董攤買下一古董表，卻被一股力量莫名牽引到一棟廢宅里，半夢半醒間見自己與一個叫小芙蓉的藝旦（邱淑貞 飾）親熱的場面。　　輝在醫院被一鬼魂提醒只有四婆能夠解救自己，于是他前往找四婆。四婆為他問米，他從盆中之水漸漸看到了自己的前世悲慘遭遇……