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.。约翰·布雷斯(尼古拉斯·凯奇 Nicolas Cage 饰)被正义天使拉萨罗斯附体,但天使暴躁乖戾,遇到坏人就要吸取他们的灵魂。
莫罗(伊德瑞斯·艾尔巴 Idris Elba 饰)请求布雷斯把小孩丹尼带来神殿以避免恶魔夺取他的灵魂,作为回报他将驱除布雷斯身上的诅咒。丹尼是魔鬼罗尔科的儿子,罗尔科为了把自己的魔力植入儿子体内正派卡里跟追踪逃跑途中的母子两人。正当母子俩被困在采石场的时候,布雷斯到来,他体内的天使爆发了出来,压制住了卡里根。他变成了恶灵骑士,毫不手软的把对手撕成碎片。当战争结束时,三人前往神殿,同时,罗尔科也救醒了死亡边缘的卡里根,并赋予他更可怕的摧毁力,让他再去把丹尼找回来。
在神殿里,莫罗履行协议把布雷斯体内的扎萨罗斯驱赶了出来。但正当他做法时,神殿的牧师试图杀死丹尼——他认为丹尼就是恶魔。还没等他们行动,卡里根就到了。把丹尼带去见了罗尔科。罗尔科逼迫丹尼参与一个仪式,想使他变成一个彻头彻尾的恶魔。
布雷斯试图阻止这个仪式,说服丹尼弃恶从善。在最后一战中,为了打败恶魔,丹尼用了他的力量把扎萨罗斯再次植入布雷斯体内。这次扎萨罗斯变成了正义的化身,打败了恶魔。。