剧情简介
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.。浪漫之都法国，拥有迷人气质的摄影师罗曼（梅尔维尔·珀波 Melvil Poupaud 饰）在工作中突然晕倒，经诊断发现他已罹患晚期癌症，去日无多。突如其来的打击，令罗曼内心百感交集，也许他隐隐意识到即使拍摄过那么多精美的照片，却无法留住行将消逝的生命。罗曼取消接下来的工作，与父母和姐姐苏菲（Louise-Anne Hippeau 饰）聚餐。纵然事先练习，依然无法道出真相，只得徒劳付诸言语的伤害。此外，他还要面对相守多年的男孩——同性恋人萨沙（Christian Sengewald 饰），接近黄昏的疲惫爱情，可堪这段生死考验？ 生命最后的旅途，关于生死最后的体验。与不同的人交错过往，随后分开。也许生就注定是一段孤独的旅程，直到终点，无人陪伴……。
