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.。二十年代中叶，国民革命军挥军北伐，各地军阀闻风丧胆，於此动汤不安的时期，天灾人祸也屡见不鲜，尤以长江、淮北的水患令老百姓苦不堪言，苏浙富庶地区募集捐款共得银元五十万，援助安徽被困的灾民，然而运送款项途中...。故事发生在纽约长岛，大企业家亚瑟（E.G.马绍尔 E.G. Marshall 饰）和同样事业有成的妻子伊芙（杰拉丹·佩姬 Geraldine Page 饰）就居住在这里，两人膝下有子女三名——蕾娜达（黛安·基顿 Diane Keaton 饰）、乔伊（玛丽·贝丝·赫特 Mary Beth Hurt 饰）和芙琳（Kristin Griffith 饰）。 身为家中的长女，蕾娜达是一位小有名气的诗人，然而，天性浪漫的她却没能拥有一段幸福的婚姻。次女乔伊嫁给了一名电影导演，虽然心中怀揣着文学梦想，但现实中，她不得不做一个跟在丈夫身后的全职太太。小女儿芙琳渴望成为一名演员，但是现实和理想的差距却让她的心中充满了焦虑。亚瑟和伊芙将三个女儿召回了家中，因为他们要宣布一件非常重要的事情——分居。。
