9 年前
搜影视
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.。25岁的年轻导演阿莱西奥·里纳尔蒂（Giuseppe Soleri 饰）正在筹划自己的处女作，但是他写的恐怖剧本过于老套，以至于被制片人接连枪毙。在制片人的建议下，他找来畅销恐怖小说作家乌巴尔多·泰尔扎尼（Paolo Sassanelli 饰）的作品拜读，为即将到来的合作做功课。乌巴尔多的描写恐怖逼真，引人入胜，令阿莱西奥不愿释手，更经历了何其真实的噩梦。 数日后，他驱车前往乌巴尔多位于都灵的寓所，与这位恐怖名家合作撰写剧本。乌巴尔多风流倜傥，笑容和善，但其友善的面孔后面似乎总弥漫着一丝迫人的寒意。在都灵期间，阿莱西奥遭遇了诸多离奇的事件，更无意中走上一条黑暗的道路……。
