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.。卢米斯(米洛·文堤米利亚 Milo Ventimiglia 饰)、雷克斯(Billy Slaughter 饰)、莎拉(Nicole Oppermann 饰)三个年轻人偶然得到一款名为《生存》的游戏,该游戏以15世纪欧洲臭名昭著的“血腥贵妇”伊丽莎白·巴瑟(Elizabeth Bathory)为蓝本,其制作精良,惊悚非常。在试玩过程中,奇怪的声响和事情接连出现,三人更先后离奇死亡。 葬礼后,卢米斯的妹妹艾玛将《生存》游戏交给哥哥生前最好的朋友霍奇(约翰·福斯特 Jon Foster 饰)。霍奇聚集一种电玩好友,一同体验这款卢米斯最后玩过的游戏。随着游戏的进行,霍奇等人发现这是一款真正的死亡游戏,所有的参与者都面临着死亡的结局。而他们已经身陷其中,无法逃离了……。埃米莉·帕里斯曝光了一个秘密少女社团,她们选择离开了社交网络从而进入了另外一个她们所发现的林中世界。埃米莉则诬陷这群女孩儿在树林里的不雅行为。使得这个小镇成为了美国媒体的焦点。然而,女孩儿们坚持了不能说出去的誓约,这个谜团将如何解开呢?。