视频简介
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.。1913年初夏，约翰·鲁克逊率领“西洋幻术歌舞团”行进在通往古城的山路上。约翰是英国侵略军头目查理的儿子，当年查理从中国掠去半只铜虎。考证后发现另半只铜虎在明末宫廷侍卫官李碧云手中。只有将两个半只铜虎上的篆文合在一起，才能找到崇祯皇帝的秘密藏宝地。约翰正是秉承父意前来夺宝的。 演出团行进途中，突然遭到两个青年的袭击。二人正是李碧云的师兄施白墨的女儿秀女和李碧云的儿子何子孝。武馆馆长旋白墨是李碧云夫妇被害后铜虎的保存者，他担心子孝、秀女报仇心切发生意外，便中断巡医赶回家中。约翰演出过程中故意亮出胸前的半铜虎，子孝他们不知是计，登台夺虎，子孝被约翰抓住，棋高一手的施白墨从王德才手中救回子孝。急于夺虎的秀女不听劝告落入约翰之手。在夺回国宝的激战中，秀女等人先后牺牲，何子孝终于为中华夺回了国宝铜虎。。
