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.。故事中这位嘴中叼着雪茄的欧吉桑,为了对抗暗黑神阿利曼,在光明神阿弗拉的指引下必须寻找5位宿命中人,只有集齐6人之力才能对抗宿敌“水晶男孩”。 【STAFF】 原作:寺泽武一脚本·监督:出崎统人物设定:杉野昭夫总作画监督:清水惠藏美术监督:河野次郎助导演:前岛健一机械设定:市原义仁色彩设计:油谷有美摄影监督:中村圭介音响监督:山田知明音乐监督:铃木清司音乐制作:池赖广动画制作:MagicBus 制作:GUILD PROJECT 【CAST】 哥普拉:野泽那智 アーマロイド・レディ:榊原良子 ジェーン.ロイヤル:藤田淑子水晶男孩:小林清志 ユートピア.モア博士:安藤麻吹 クリフ.ボールド伯爵:咲野俊介哥普拉:野泽那智 ゴクウ:山口胜平 アフラ・マズダ:高岛雅罗。杰米(杰西卡·伦敦-谢尔兹 Jessica London-Shields 饰)和杰西(法基娅·米尔沙 Fawzia Mirza 饰)是一对无话不谈的好友,随着时间的推移,两人之间的友谊逐渐变质,最终,她们发现她们已经爱上了彼此。杰米一直希望能够成为一名演员,为了追逐自己的梦想,她决定离开芝加哥,前往纽约打拼。 杰米的决定让杰西感到非常的焦虑,她决定如果两人分隔两地,那么她们之间的感情势必会走向终结。随着杰米搬家的日子越来越近,杰西的焦虑与日俱增,可她选择了最糟糕的方式来表达自己的感情,那就是和其他人乱搞,她以为这样能够激起杰米的嫉妒心,让她留下来,但实际上却恰恰相反。。