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.。拜别仙山后,莫衣与百里东君两大绝世高手退隐。萧瑟隐脉已然恢复,重回逍遥天境,雷无桀等人也相继得到仙人馈赠,实力也有不同地提升。众人决心赶赴天启城,江湖一别,朝堂再见。永安王萧瑟、白王萧崇、赤王萧羽三大势力汇聚一堂,夺嫡之争正式上演,谁又将登上那天启乘龙之位.......。主人公威尔弗里德·威尔斯是第二次世界大战初期安弗尔的一名警官。当时,镇上发生了暴力示威活动,人们普遍对他不信任,但威尔弗里德却竭尽全力避免麻烦。他得到了一个名叫 "卑鄙的胡子 "的德国占领军的支持,同时也是他的同事、激烈反纳粹的洛德的知己,洛德还是他未婚妻伊薇特的哥哥。威尔弗雷德必须为生存而战,而纳粹的占领和对犹太人的灭绝正日益成为压迫性的现实。。