9 年前
搜影视
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.。干了一辈子矿工的“老井王”倪大红在矿场员工中备受尊重，就在其“告老还乡”之日却被煤老板要求最后一次下井爆破一个未被开发的矿井。陈晓东、李彧作为倪大红一手带出来的徒弟跟随师父再一次走进了矿井，然而就在倪大红这人生最后一次爆破中发生了事故，几位矿工遭遇了“灭顶之灾”。灾难发生后，矿井外的家属却是各怀心事，倪大红的老伴满脸憔悴，陈晓东的妹妹李菲儿更是千里迢迢赶来一起加入了营救的队伍，然而惟独李彧的老婆却在此时拿出了多份之前为李彧购买的保险……井下的倪大红却带领着陈晓东、李彧等人，凭借自己多年的经验寻找生路，生理上的饥饿与疲惫，精神上的恐惧与绝望，无时无刻不在折磨着他们，此时的他们只有与时间赛跑，与死亡抗争。。
