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.。《惊情谍变》剧情,美丽单纯的银行职员哈莉(卡特莉娜·卡芙饰 Katrina Kaif)在一次偶然的聚会中邂逅了性感帅气,绅士风度的阿杰(赫里尼克·罗斯汉饰 Hrithik Roshan),两人相互被对方的迷人气质所吸引,相谈甚欢。当她认为这是天外飞来艳福,正准备期待一场浪漫而又美好的爱情时,却万万没有想到,接下来她的人生会变得跌宕起伏,险象环生,短短几分钟过后,两人竟意外成为众人追杀的逃命鸳鸯,在接下来的日子里,她将和阿杰上天下海,环游世界,享受枪林弹雨,血雨腥风带来的浪漫与惊险…… 《惊情谍变》由二十世纪福克斯出品,剧本改编自汤姆·克鲁斯 / 卡梅隆·迪亚茨主演的《危情谍战》 ,是好莱坞进军宝莱坞的作品,欲以此打开宝莱坞的大门,电影上映后轰出了38亿卢比,海外票房亦获得非常不错的成绩,在北美上映仅一周便取得700万美元,顺利打入了北美周票房前10...。