河康(李瑞镇 饰)在年幼之时便失去了父母孤苦伶仃,所幸得到了黑帮老大的收养,才不至于流落街头。长大之后,为了报答养父的养育之恩,河康义无反顾的走上了养父希望他走上的“黑暗之道”,成为了养父的左膀右臂。
一次偶然中,身负重伤的河康遇见了善良的医生美珠(金贞恩 饰),在美珠的悉心照料之下,河康渐渐康复,他的心中亦生出了对美珠的爱慕之情。不幸的是,美珠对黑帮深恶痛绝,声称绝不会和相关分子有任何瓜葛。而河康养父的亲生儿子亦对美珠情有独钟,一边是自己炙热的感情,一边是残酷而又无法改变的事实,在理智与情感之间,河康会做出怎样的选择呢?。弱气少年南宫悟(冯铭潮饰),每天都过着学校家里两点一线的平淡生活。因父母寄回的上古宝玉,神遇强力狐妖白小仙(张籽沐饰),本来平静的生活就此被打破,各种想要争夺宝玉及南宫悟性命的妖怪也接踵而至,展开了一场关于人与妖之间的奇妙物语。。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.。