Eburi is a 36 year-old man. Nothing enthuses him any more. While being drunk, he promises to contribute a story to a magazine. When he sobers down, he decides to write about the life of a salaried employee like himself who is very ordinary, not particularly talented.
The following is his story:
In 1949, Eburi gets married to Natsuko. His monthly salary is 8,000 yen and hers 4,000 yen. Therefore, both have to work to support themselves. Eburi has developed a habituIl tendency to pester around when he gets drunk. One year after their marriage, son Shosuke is born. In 1959, Eburi's mother dies in despair of her husband who has become listless due to the several ups and downs of gaining big profits and going bankrupt. His father is still alive and Eburi is enable to find a way to pay his father's debts. He is doubtful if he can make his wife and child happy. Nevertheless, he has somehow managed to survive so far, living in one of the houses at the employee housing quarters. He gives the title "The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman" to his story of half novel and half essay style. When it is published, it receives the Naoki Literary Prize (the award given in memory of popular writer Naoki Sanjugo). At a party to celebrate his award, he gets drunk and pesters around.
Notes
The film is based on a novel written in the style of an essay under the same title by Yamaguchi Hitomi, depicting everyday life of a man categorized as "During-the-war Generation" who spent school days during the war and get married to start new life in the struggling post-war era. "Everyman" in the title means an average salaried employee who makes up an overwhelming majority of the city population in Japan, and "The Elegant Life" indicates sarcasm on betterment of the standard of living of ordinary salaried employees accompanied with Japan's economic growth after only a decade from the destroyed post-war period. As depicted in the film, the author Yamaguchi Hitomi was awarded the Naoki Literature Prize for this story. When he established himself well enough to become independent, he quit working as a salaried employee. Director Okamoto Kihachi and the leading actor Kobayashi Keiju belong to the same generation as the author. Exploiting innovative effects such as inserting animation sequences, the film humorously presents compassion of a middle-aged salaried employee. Kobayashi Keiju, who was originally noted for his excellent portrayal of salaried employee, won the best leading actor award of the Mainichi Film Contest for his superb performance in this picture.。1942年欧洲卷起纳粹浪潮 ,法国亦不能幸免,巴黎有过万名犹太人被警察拘捕送往集中营,孩子被迫与父母分离,部份更被分批屠杀。11岁的犹太少女莎拉 与家人亦难逃一劫,为保护弟弟,她将弟弟锁在房间小秘室中免被警察拘捕。最终莎拉与家人被送往集中营,可是她一直紧握着小秘室的钥匙,希望有日可逃回家拯救弟弟。。在英国的一个小村庄里,来了一位曼妙的整容美女塔玛拉·德鲁(杰玛·阿特登 Gemma Arterton 饰),她曾经在这里长大,现在她已在外闯荡多年,还给自己天生的大鼻子整了形,成为一名年轻的记者,她此行只是为了将母亲遗留下的房子卖掉。然而,当曾经的大鼻子丑女以如此美艳的形象出现在众人面前时,宁静的村庄一下子波澜起伏,男人们接二连三地拜倒在塔玛拉的石榴裙下:小伙子安迪(卢克·伊万斯 Luke Evans 饰)从小就被她吸引,乐队鼓手本(多米尼克·库珀 Dominic Cooper 饰)更是与其展开热恋,甚至连中年作家尼古拉斯(罗杰·阿拉姆 Roger Allam 饰)也背着妻子与她纠缠。然而纸包不住火,事情渐渐暴露并发生一连串戏剧性的转折,塔玛拉和村民们的生活如何才能回归正轨? 电影改编自波西·西芒德斯深受大众喜爱的同名漫画小说,漫画的创作灵感来源于托...。