Jerry(余文乐 饰)与许乐(王嘉明 饰)是同事,也是室友。他们俩性格迥异,Jerry生性多情,生活中的女性不断,在女人群中寻找真爱。许乐则是默默地等待自己的最爱出现。
终于,两人一同在街上遇到了心中的女神。这位叫Cherie(邓丽欣 饰)的女孩让两个男生神魂颠倒,互相打赌谁先追求成功。默默追随的许乐却不能得到Cherie的芳心,她与Jerry成为了恋人。
可是Jerry的若即若离时Cherie捉摸不透。后来才得知Jerry曾为了报复,假意追求与他有过恩怨富商之女Jenny(傅颖 饰),受不了Jerry的玩弄,Jenny的精神出现了问题。
这件事一直困扰着Jerry,Cherie也无法面对Jerry的冷淡,转向了许乐的怀抱,两人决定结婚。婚礼之际,Jerry匆忙赶到了,Cherie此刻心情复杂,不知如何是好。。达芬奇生活在一个宁静和平的小村庄里,每天都沉迷在自己研究的神奇发明中。他有个名叫洛伦佐的好朋友,勤劳勇敢,喜欢自然,总是给达芬奇许多帮助。达芬奇喜欢一名叫“蒙娜丽莎”的聪慧又机敏的女孩,在他们身边总是会发生许多有趣的事儿。直到一场大火烧毁了蒙娜丽莎家的农田,她的父亲为了生计,不得不让蒙娜丽莎嫁给一个富有却惹人讨厌的家伙。为了解救自己的伙伴,达芬奇从一个神秘说书人那里听说在佛罗伦萨附近的海域内藏有宝藏。
于是达芬奇与小伙伴们踏上了冒险的旅程,但等待他们的却是海盗们设下的重重圈套……。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.。