18 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.。哈维出身小丑世家，西班牙内战夺走了他的父亲与童年，沉重的回忆让他只能扮演哭泣的小丑。但他爱上了马戏团的女神─—娜塔莉，她是笑脸小丑的女友，而隐藏在笑脸面具下的，尽是暴力虐待。于是哈维决心拯救佳人，在所不惜。一段足以荣登影史的变态三角恋就此展开：一个被情敌劈得头破血流，只能找兽医急救，帅气的脸庞被缝成了半兽人，从此只能逗小孩尖叫；另一个用强碱腐蚀皮肤当粉底，还用熨斗烫上腮红，日后逢人就杀；而爱到不能爱的娜塔莉，倒楣到随时随地都会被狭路相逢的两个小丑轮番追求（杀）。爱让每个人都抓狂，但看到骨子里，这其实也是一场另类的国族寓言。。纳尼与邻楼的女孩宾都相爱，但他们从未对彼此述说衷肠，两人继续享受着心动的默恋。哪知宾都的老板苏迪普也看上了她，这个看似腰缠万贯、有权有势的男人实则是个心狠手辣的黑帮老大。他用尽手段欲引诱宾都，但他发现宾都爱的是纳尼。正当宾都鼓起勇气想向纳尼表明心意时，纳尼却被心怀嫉妒的苏迪普所杀。纳尼的灵魂并没有死，他竟重生变为一只苍蝇。它努力破坏苏迪普接近宾都的一切计划，并让宾都相信它就是纳尼。于是这对情侣开始联手实施一系列不同寻常的报复行动……。
