托尼娅(克里斯提娜·杨达 Krystyna Janda 饰)觉得,再也没有什么事情能比丈夫康斯坦丁(奥尔基尔德·鲁卡斯瑟维克茨 Olgierd Lukaszewicz 饰)的四处沾花惹草更糟糕的了,但很快托尼娅便明白,事实并不是如此。原来,在一次买醉消愁时,托尼娅酩酊大醉,醒来后的她发现自己被关进了监狱,而当局囚禁她的罪名不是别的,竟然是叛国。
托尼娅始终都想不明白,一向循规蹈矩的自己怎么会背负上如此罪名,负责审讯她的狱卒也想不明白,但他们知道,只要从灵魂和肉体上不断的对托尼娅进行双重的折磨,总有一天她会吐露真相。噩梦一般的生活开始了,却没有结束的一天,在侮辱和伤痛中,有一个信念始终支持着托尼娅,那就是她的无辜。。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.。