视频简介
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.。On a remote holiday park in Cornwall, a young woman is drawn into a mysterious obsession when she suspects her boyfriend has cheated on her.。中年男人李强（葛优 饰）陷入了事业与家庭以及自身的三重麻烦：公司陷入三角债的泥潭，讨债的天天上门坐办公室里，欠债的经常约出去唱歌，白吃白喝白玩，可就是不跟他提还钱的事；家里老婆疑心他跟女秘书（林熙蕾 饰）有染，儿子（陈柏霖 饰）从美国回家度假，跟个哑巴一样，一句话都不说；他自己经常头痛，检查发现脑部有阴影，可能是癌。为了让整个生活有转机，也为了在自己可能死后给家人铺好后路，他决定要购买Frank（John Savage 饰）祖传的奶酪公司。 年过半百的Frank自有另一番不为人知的光景，祖传的公司入不敷出，跟妻子离了婚，女儿又进了戒毒所，于是挺儿走险企图来中国卖掉自己一文不值的公司然后逃之夭夭。 两个不同种族但又同样处于困境中的中年男人都渴望能解决自己遇到的问题，而现在又发生了千丝万缕的联系，而身边出现的女秘书、爆矿老板（刘桦 饰）等人物也都各有不为人知的心病，大千世界里的这些芸芸群生们将何去何从？。