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.。故事发生在上个世纪三十年代初期，纸醉金迷的上海滩实则鱼龙混杂、帮派林立。很多黑帮更是用实业公司当成幌子，背后却干着各种各样的非法生意。梁笑棠治下的天和公司向来不与这些帮派为伍，而一心选择民族大义为重。梁笑棠的长子梁家邦却不满足于安分守己的经营正当生意，他与黑帮头子张青锋内外勾结，不仅走私烟土，还对自家的生意打起了主意，梁笑棠决定扶持次子梁家晋上位。梁家邦竟然暗中对梁笑棠痛下杀手。梁家晋一面要继承父业、一面又要彻查父亲的死因，而祸不单行的是，他竟然发现自己相恋多时的女友是黑帮安插在他身边的杀手。面对不断接踵而至的麻烦，梁家晋开始了复兴天和公司、捣毁黑帮、揭开女友杀手面纱……这一系列的精密计划。。
