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.。在韩国长大的安平原,对自己已经故去母亲的印象全部来自于姑姑和爷爷的描述:一个为了自己的私情,抛弃亲生儿子的风流寡妇。平原从小性格沉郁压抑,如今他身为韩国美联集团的唯一继承人,正准备为了家族事业而迎娶林氏集团的千金林美姬小姐。在订婚宴上,平原突然得知了母亲尚在人间的消息,他不顾一切来到中国延吉,踏上了这段异国寻亲之旅。
金百合是一名优秀的舞蹈演员。在她知道自己脚踝受伤,无法继续跳舞的同时,又接到母亲去世的消息。倍受打击的她黯然回到了家乡,于是百合和平原就在妈妈的酱汤馆里相遇了。
金龙七是个热爱音乐的青年,视音乐为生命。他和女朋友里里情投意合,与姐姐百合的关系反而不是很融洽。然而,这一切却因平原的到来而改变了。
平原了解到百合、龙七是母亲后来所生的一对龙凤胎,他并没有向姐弟俩表明自己的身份,而是暗中观察他们,从百合和龙七的言行中体味着母亲的一切。不知情的百合却在与平原相处的日子里,渐渐地对他产生了好感。
平原在和百合、龙七相处的日子里,慢慢地找寻着母亲的生活碎片。在了解了一系列关于母亲的故事后,他不仅理解了母亲,更被母亲的品格深深地感动。同时,平原却不知如何面对和百合的感情,直到未婚妻美姬的突然到访,使这一切变得更为复杂。
终于,百合和龙七知道了真相。突如其来的真相使百合和龙七伤心不已,同时也为他们共同拥有这样一位伟大而平凡的母亲而骄傲。在亲情、爱情、事业、人生面前,平原、百合和龙七最终做出了在他们看来足以令母亲欣慰的选择。。三只熊熊兄弟们因为网络上的名气,以及对大都市的迷恋,他们被迫面对无法预料的混乱,熊熊们不得不展开一场疯狂、危险但又有聚会的冒险之旅,以躲避来自国家野生动物管制局的追捕,于是大大、胖达和白熊一同踏上了前往加拿大的旅程!在旅途中,他们将互相帮忙、渡过种种难关,最重要的是,这趟旅程也将再次证明他们是彼此最好的伙伴。熊熊们是如何相识、又是如何建立起如此亲密的伙伴关系?这一次也将首次揭露当年熊熊们初识的点点滴滴,以及彼此从陌生到熟识的互动过程。。