视频简介
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.。在美国二十世纪五十年代初，男主角——一个意大利裔男人，带着全家搬入一个新购买的房中。房屋内原来的租客不愿意搬走，男主角与朋友们打算使用暴力撵走他们。但是，他们却发现租客的老婆要生孩子。大家就帮忙接生，可是生出来的孩子是黑人，大家都很惊诧，这使得租客离家出走再也没回来。男主角将租客老婆撵走后，良心发现帮她租了一个房间，之后就经常去她家做客。日子久了，两人关系变得暧昧，且因为男主角要上夜班，他就在深夜与租客老婆幽会。一段时间后，男主角老婆发现了老公的外遇，很生气，但打算原谅他。可是男主角发现老婆及朋友们都讨厌生下黑人的租客老婆，就一怒之下离开了他生活的圈子。最后，男主角与租客老婆共同奋斗，他梦寐以求的酒馆终于开张了，即使没有顾客。。
