她复活了一项19世纪的传统:为人提供朗诵服务。瘫痪少年、瞎眼遗孀、离异商人、退休法官和缺少母爱的幼女,都是她的客户。他们不能或者不愿意自己看书,只用耳朵听。她为他们读托尔斯泰、莫泊桑,也读波德莱尔和杜拉斯,读《爱丽丝漫游仙境》,也读《所多玛120天》,甚至包括马克思、高尔基和列宁。她时而是现实中的康斯坦丝,时而是虚构人物玛丽。她马不停蹄地填补着别人生命中的破洞,简直又是80年……。ABC宣布续订《实习医生格蕾》第19季。和第18季一样,ABC没有宣布这会是最终季,或是Ellen Pompeo出演的最后一季。 Krista Vernoff继续担任运作人。Ellen Pompeo则签订了一年期限的全新合约,并将在新季中从联合执行制片升级为执行制片。 此外,剩余的初始演员Chandra Wilson和James Pickens Jr.据悉签订了多年合约,其中就包括第19季。。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.。