为阻止日军增援,荷花与胡水生用麻袋背鬼子,并与新四军取得联系,对敌人发起袭击。日军依靠民房进行顽抗。荷花点燃民房,新四军发起冲锋,全歼了胡家台的敌人。。佟卓尧在教堂回想起来当年福叔因为一个女孩子做伪证,当庭被气得心脏病突发死去,福妈没多久也去世了。这个女孩子在佟卓尧心里就是带走他生命最重要的人。他恨她,她就是阮曼君。但是他却不知道这几年阮曼君对此事也是心存疑虑不能释怀,虽然是法律系的高材生,但是却没有从事法律相关工作。两人在阮的前男友婚礼上相遇,佟强行带走阮羞辱她并且把她丢在马路上。几次误会后通过佟氏企业法律顾问和李多多,佟卓尧开始试着了解阮曼君,发现了她的倔强与善良,两人开始了恋爱。不料危险也正向两人靠近,佟卓尧的同父异母的弟弟戴靖杰,在他外公钟利涛的思想灌输下,要从佟卓尧那拿回自己的一切。佟母林璐云也极力反对佟画的婚姻,撮合佟卓尧和宏叶千金叶洁白。两人周围暗流汹涌,佟卓尧抵住一切压力完成了父亲的遗愿,也化解了和弟弟以及钟家叶家的恩怨。而佟卓尧和阮曼君的结局又何去何从呢?。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.。