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二十世纪末，北京印刷厂工人翦卫国，赢得厂花江明娟的好感。婚后江明娟发现翦卫国“骗”了自己，毅然生下孩子后离他而去。四姐因为喜爱翦峰，逐渐对翦卫国有了感情。翦卫国工厂倒闭去开出租，四姐拿出珍藏多年的绝版猴票，让翦卫国变卖后买房，带着翦峰一起生活。价值连城的猴票使翦卫国不敢随意出手，但绝版猴票现世的消息，却引来不少人的垂涎——都要打猴票的主意。小小一枚猴票，令翦卫国和四姐的生活皱起波澜，各色人物，在金钱诱惑前，显现出世间百态。四姐和翦卫国也在欲望面前，经受着考验。最后，翦卫国毅然将“猴票”捐出，了断所有人的念想，而他则开着自己的出租车，带着四姐和翦峰，去登记结婚！。在20XX年，日本面临着最后一场战争的危机，一个军事公司开发的“大规模毁灭性超级武器”被恐怖组织夺走。同时，半机械人的克里斯·索奥托姆（Chris Saotome）被转换为杀戮武器，遇到了一个名叫萨拉的神秘女孩....。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.。
