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.。载着12个犯人的囚车出了交通事故,并撞上了驱车回家的Douglas Madsen医生的车子。大多数犯人在车祸中死去,仅有四人幸存,但一人严重受伤。在解决掉所有警卫后,他们挟持着Douglas Madsen医生逃往树林。意外的巨大房子出现在林子,领头人Arthur不断强调如果受伤的兄弟死掉,他将杀死Douglas和屋内“一家子”的每一个成员。与此同时,这家人的部分成员表现出奇怪的行为,很快暴行肆虐开来。原来这里居住的是一群不死族的怪兽,任何武器都无法杀害他们。经过一场残酷的激战后,只有Madsen医生幸运地逃出了这里…… 然而很不幸,Madsen医生在相同的地点又一次卷入了交通事故,不过这次换成Madsen医生成为囚犯了。很快,那场悲剧将再次上演,医生能否再次逃过这一劫……。《老梁故事汇》(原为《英达故事汇》)是山西卫视一档与众不同的脱口秀节目,2013年播出时间为每天的18点。通过调侃时下社会热点,将观众带回到与这些热点相关的老故事中,在古今中外中跳进跳出、大开大合的讲述中,让观众在故事中里体味变化的时代和不变的真情。