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.。杰克凯斯（尼克·诺特 Nick Nolte 饰）是一名长期在警界未能有所突破的资深警探。他一直感到郁闷和失意，经常酗酒来逃避现实。与此同时，在黑人区长大的雷吉汉蒙德（艾迪·墨菲 Eddie Murphy 饰）一直是一个惯犯，从年轻时就开始犯罪活动。然而，无论杰克还是雷吉，他们都渴望能够改变自己的生活状况，追求新的机会和改正错误。 故事的转折点发生在瓦尔登旅馆之中，重刑犯艾伯特（詹姆斯·瑞马尔 James Remar 饰）和他的搭档比利（索尼·兰哈姆 Sonny Landham 饰）越狱成功，并躲藏在这家旅馆中。他们用假名字掩盖身份，并计划继续他们的犯罪行动。与此同时，杰克和他的同事文森特和阿尔根被派去调查一宗案件，却不幸成为艾伯特的目标。杰克决定为同事报仇，他请求上司允许他独立办案。。