视频简介
六十年代的香港，被喻为受着中西文化冲激的动荡年代，当时经济腾飞，贫富悬殊，在繁华背后。黑道横行。有人巧取豪夺，有人混水摸鱼，更有人无所事事，丁贵妹便是黑帮二世祖中的表表者，多年来未曾沾手江湖争斗，更懒理外面腥风血雨，只顾吃喝玩乐，风花说月，但好景不常，适逢叔父虾叔年事已高，而仅有的精力亦花在娶妾身上，根本无力再料理黑帮业务，故将生意推到丁贵妹身上，妹人到中年始从头学起，拉夫上阵，黑帮二世祖摇身一变为舞厅及麻雀馆老板。在大吹一夫一妻制度的风气下，生性风流的妹却一于少理，眼见舞厅美女如云，一心以为近水楼台手到拿来，更梦想步叔父后尘，三妻四妾左拥右抱，岂料身兼妇女会主席的老婆洛芙蓉眉精眼利，略施小计便顺利安排由大陆来港的弟弟洛枸杞随丈夫工作，既打理酒家与舞厅生意，更替妹处理球队事宜，目的只为监视妹一举一动慎防越轨，但蓉手上皇牌莫过于妹之高龄祖母李兰，只因兰...。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.。