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.。乔治亚和林思媛留美归来,在海轮上相遇,俊男靓女共坠爱河。 林思媛的父亲是上海有名的争行家,漂亮女儿的浪漫恋情却招致银行襄理李心智和遭林父亲遗弃的前妻之女――女扮男装的律师肖亦然的联手作梗,最终不权使银行濒临破产,还逼林思媛嫁给李心智。林思媛婚后备受李家母子的羞辱折磨。李心智还捏造莫须有的罪名,使乔治亚含冤入狱。 上海沦陷期间,李心智投敌求生,加紧谋夺林家产业的同时又死皮赖脸追求肖亦然。父亲临终前的忏悔。终使肖原谅了父亲,为解救同父异母的妹妹林思媛和保护暗恋中和乔治亚,她虚以允诺李心智的求爱莫能助,并欲借此除掉李心智,却未能如愿。 抗战胜利后,李心智畏罪绑架肖亦然后潜逃。林思媛和乔治亚赶来相救。终于惩处了恶魔李心智。肖亦然却在混战中伤成植物人。 林思媛变卖祖宅,让乔治亚陪肖亦然去美国治病,还是归来的那个码头。林思媛目送乔治亚的重新离去。不禁感慨万分。从...。师父独孤桀盗取家传武功秘籍,杀了妻子允许,李青山不是其对手,被迫带着女儿逃亡流浪至金城,机缘巧合遇到苏琴,并受到苏琴帮助欠下天大恩情,朝夕相处苏琴对李青山心生爱慕,但因为妻子大仇未报,所以李青山屡次拒绝苏琴表白,即便如此苏琴还是未曾放弃……。