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.。周传阅在一次意外中“穿越”到了2022年,醒来后发现自己是坐豪车、住豪宅的上市公司董事长,更意外的是当年心中的女神复芳竟是自己的老婆,当他偶遇年少时的情敌莱昂时发现莱昂一直对复芳念念不忘,俩人展开一系列爆笑过招。。某座城市的验尸房,艾米(丹妮尔·哈丽丝 Danielle Harris 饰)行色匆匆,准备参加亲朋为她准备的生日派对。而就在此时,惨无人道的大屠杀在城中另一个角落发生,九人遇害,而屠戮他们的凶手雅克布·古德奈特(Glen Jacobs 格兰·“凯恩”·雅克布 饰)也在救护车上咽下最后一口气。眼看派对泡汤,艾米只得和同事赛斯(卡吉-埃里克·埃里克森 Kaj-Erik Eriksen 饰)打起精神准备接收送来的尸体。而就在此时,艾米的哥哥威尔(格里斯顿·霍尔特 Greyston Holt 饰)带着凯拉(切兰·西蒙斯 Chelan Simmons 饰)、塔玛拉(凯瑟琳·伊莎贝尔 Katharine Isabelle 饰)等好友潜入验尸房,精心为妹妹准备了盛大欢快的派对。
胆大妄为的男女们纵情歌舞,却不料雅各布已悄然醒来……。