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.。18世纪中叶，日不落帝国英吉利将触角伸向古老的中国，并通过大量输入鸦片来掠夺钱财。白银大量流向国外，中国人民却被鸦片毒害得愈加羸弱。在清廷内部，以穆扎阿为首的投降派和以林则徐为首的抵抗派针锋相对，斗争激烈。道光皇帝眼见天朝因鸦片所害渐渐羸弱，因而大力支持林则徐的禁烟政策，并任命其为钦差大臣前往广州查禁鸦片。林则徐来到广州后雷厉风行，令行禁止，让一度轻视他的英国鸦片商人大为惊恐。经过一段时间的治理，当地海防得到整顿，英商也被迫交出鸦片。最终，林则徐在虎门销毁两万多箱鸦片，取得禁烟的重大胜利。 然而，不堪受挫的英国随即挑起鸦片战争，朝廷内部的投降派也不失时机广进谗言，林则徐的改革之路顿陷困境……。Umma即韩语母亲的意思，故事聚焦阿曼达（吴珊卓饰）和她的女儿在美国农场过着平静的生活，但当她早已疏远的母亲的遗体从韩国运抵美国时，阿曼达因害怕变成自己的母亲而产生困扰。。
