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.。酷爱摇滚的高中生汤姆在学校饱受欺负，唯有音乐可以给他信心和勇气。一天，他发现楼下搬来了一个神秘的臭脾气大叔，并认出他居然是十年前红极一时的摇滚教父史蒂夫。因为欠了一屁股债遭到警察追捕，并且深深自责自己疏于照顾导致儿子溺水身亡，史蒂夫在八年前就伪造了自己的死亡证明，逃离公众视野。学琴心切的汤姆以公开身份作为制约让史蒂夫开始教自己吉他，与汤姆相处的这段时间里，史蒂夫的摇滚之血逐渐燃起，心门也渐渐打开。可是，汤姆学校中摇滚社团的社长发现了史蒂夫的秘密，并且将之公之于众。史蒂夫愤然离开，决定再也不教汤姆吉他。汤姆只身参加了摇滚大赛，可谁知，史蒂夫忽然现身，跳上舞台给观众奉献了一场视听盛宴。事后，汤姆夺得了冠军，而史蒂夫也被警察带走了。可史蒂夫却因为这次的经历重获新生，学会了原谅，对过往悲剧终于释怀。。
