视频简介
美丽少女安吉•阿尔布莱特（莎拉•汤普森 Sarah Thompson 饰）独自到位于偏远山区小镇的亚当斯学院求学。这里看似安宁，却是个地道的危险所在，一段时间内不断传出女孩失踪并被杀害的消息。某天，安吉在学校布告栏看到招聘保姆的通知。为了赚取生活费，她前往通知上所写的农庄应聘。雇主是年轻的史丹顿夫妇吉姆（布鲁斯•托马斯 Bruce Thomas 饰）和瓦尔莉特（Kristen Dalton 饰），他们即将参加农场举行的集会，因此招聘保姆照看他们年幼的儿子山姆（凯伊•卡斯特 Kai Caster 饰）。 应聘当夜，山姆很早上床睡觉，安吉则独自一人看书，这一晚似乎平静轻松。但随之后来的一系列事件随即引起安吉的恐慌：默不作声的骚扰电话、不断撞击的房门、沉默冷静的山姆、经常尾随安吉的神秘男子。这一切的背后，仿佛隐藏着更为恐怖的秘密……。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.。
