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.。抗日战争前夕，青岛地下党农运部长郑子龙，在万国公墓接头时被诱捕。当晚，以牙医为掩护的地下工作者丁建堂，从门缝里收到了交通员鲁成顺发出的告急信号。不久，党的交通员、丁建堂的新婚妻子叶玉芝从天津归来，她告诉丁建堂未找到上级领导，仅带回一只古瓶和在船上收到的一张画有古瓶与古币的纸条。丁建堂判断上级又派人来了，要她按期去慈云轩古玩店以兑换古董为名进行接头。叶玉芝到慈云轩后，老板见她没有古币，拒绝兑换。她回到家中，曾在船上注意过她的一位青年军官，现已改变装束来到她家门前。丁建堂闻声出门，一眼认出他是阔别多年的义弟夏东岳。虽然丁建堂曾救过夏东岳，两人是生死之交，但因多年未见，互相有些生疏，彼此经过一番探查，夏东岳才亮出古币，讲明自己受党派遣，前来打通崂山关系，准备建立抗日武装。在谈到郑子龙被捕情况时，丁建堂认为可能是叛徒出卖，并怀疑鲁成顺。为弄清组织情况，夏东岳...。阴森小院里，城里美女哀求进入地窖。丑陋父亲提出三个条件，美女咬牙应允。躲在暗处的儿子好奇窥探，被父亲发现后遭毒打警告："结婚前不得探寻地窖秘密，否则天谴而死！"父亲拖着瘸腿带美女走向地窖，铁链晃动声在风中回荡，仿佛藏着不可告人的禁忌。。
