九纹龙曾经叱咤江湖,这号风云人物却被人出卖,在泰国被拘捕。多年后他回到香港,在“九龙冰室”当侍应,打算就此在江湖销声匿迹。怎料一名6岁的男孩直呼自己爸爸,原来这个叫兆龙的男孩是当年他远赴泰国后女友Helen生下的儿子。当年九纹龙为了女友的安全,狠心不辞而别。兆龙的出现使九纹龙的生活再次泛起波澜,他的气质吸引了儿子的班主任阿蒙。九纹龙的身份还是被江湖之人发现了,并希望他能重振雄风。Helen再次见到的九纹龙已经风光不再,她积极为九纹龙的复出铺路,九纹龙却不想再过问江湖事……。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.。加州理工学院的天才宅男物理学家莱纳德和谢尔顿与他们的女伴碰撞出了生活中接二连三的“爆炸”,四个科学阿宅的生活故事在笑声中悄然开始上演。。