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.。在白鹿书院求学的寒门儒生秦牧被院长之子夺取词作,重伤之后,机缘巧合得到了来自华夏的文脉传承,随后秦牧的贴身侍女被人掳走,又卷入了稷下学宫和阴阳学宫的百年恩怨之中,为了尊严与生存,自此踏上成圣之路。。公冈崎律(长濑智也 饰)自幼便失去了父母,挣扎在社会的最底层,靠着加入黑社会才勉强能够生存下去。一场意外中,律邂逅了名为三田凛华(吉冈里帆 饰)的女子,这个单纯善良的女孩在律的脑海里留下了深深的印象。
律患上了无法治愈的绝症,他决定在临死之前见一见当年抛弃自己的母亲。然而,令律无法接受的是,母亲日向丽子(大竹忍 饰)带着儿子悟(坂口健太郎 饰)过着幸福美满的生活,压根就不记得曾经被她抛弃的律。在悟的身边,律再度遇见了凛华。凛华一直苦苦暗恋着悟,却没有勇气传达自己的心意。随着时间的推移,凛华和心中充满了痛苦和绝望的律越走越近。。