视频简介
1938年，蒋介石为阻挡日军进攻，在河南花园囗炸堤放水，中原人民背井离乡，流离失所。地主家女长工李麦（张瑞芳 饰）不满国民党当局不管人民死活的行径，当街斥问他们，国军军官只是搪塞。后来李麦在女干部宋敏（李秀明 饰）的感召下，加入了共产党组织。她积极串联无家可归的难民，向他们宣传党的主张，组织起来和敌人斗争。她化装进城，当着外国记者杜兰特（戈沙 饰）、贝丽（凯蒂 饰）的面，揭露当局祸国殃民的罪行。解放后，已担任区干部的李麦在黄河大堤上受到毛主席（于是之 饰）亲切接见，她激动万分。逢人就介绍解放前后黄泛区所发生的翻天覆地的变化，当1958年又一次特大洪峰来临时，周总理（王铁成 饰）亲临抗洪前线......。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.。
