一场同学会勾连出很多陈年旧怨、市井百态,并且上一次同学会惹出的洗手间幽会事件的谜团一直延续到了这次同学会中,引起了众人的猜忌,同时同学们突然发现,他们都看不起的这个何小龙,居然就是百强企业华隆集团的CEO。。一年战争已告一段落的三年后,基于地球联邦军重建计划而被提议的“高达开发计划”开始执行,其中的两台原型机RX-78GP01与RX-78GP02A为了实施性能测试而搬运至澳大利亚"托林顿"基地,但是吉恩残党查知此项计划,并且袭击该基地企图夺取装载有核弹的GP02A。曾经被称呼为“所罗门的恶梦”的吉恩军王牌机师阿纳贝尔•卡多少校(又译为阿纳贝鲁•卡图)成功的搭上了GP02A,但是在企图脱离的GP02A面前,新手测试驾驶员浦木宏驾驶了GP01拦阻,揭开了宇宙世纪0083年迪拉兹纷争的序幕。。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.。