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.。威尔(本·福斯特 Ben Foster 饰)和女儿汤姆(托马辛·麦肯齐 Thomasin McKenzie 饰)过着相依为命的日子。父女两人在深山老林里安营扎寨,一直都离群索居,不和现代社会有所接触。虽然丛林里的生存条件十分的恶劣,但威尔觉得这才是他们应该有的生活。某日,政府的工作人员找到了父女两人,强制将他们带回了文明世界之中,虽然在这里吃得饱、穿得暖,但威尔还是觉得自己仿佛在坐牢一般。终于,他决定带着汤姆再度回到他的野生王国之中,可此时的汤姆显然更加愿意待在无论做什么事情都非常便利的城市里,父女两人之间产生了巨大的分歧。在自己的意愿和女儿的渴望之间,威尔会如何选择呢?。陈凡与妻子过着简单而温馨的生活,两人携手共度风雨,共同经营着温馨的小家。然而,一场突如其来的灾难却打破了这份宁静与幸福。妻子意外遇害,陈凡的世界瞬间崩塌,他无法接受这个残酷的现实,心中充满了悲痛与愤怒。。