视频简介
本片讲述了几位在中秋节无法回家团圆的人的故事——出租车司机、创业女孩、沪漂厨师和返乡创作者，展现他们为生活奔波却心系家人的温暖与坚守。。乡下姑娘Denise（乔安娜·范德汉姆 joanna vanderham 饰）为了生计来到北部城市为投靠叔叔。叔叔开了一家服装、布料店，一直以来生意都还过得去，可现在街对面建起了全英国第一家百货商店——天堂百货店，绝大多数顾客都被它吸引过去了。叔叔没钱雇佣Denise，她只能去天堂百货工作。很快，就在店里展示出她的才华和机敏，并逐渐喜欢上了老板John（埃那姆·埃利奥特 Emun Elliott 饰）。John正和Katherine（伊莲·卡西迪 Elaine Cassidy 饰）交往，想通过她说服她的银行家爸爸借钱扩张公司。John的好友兼职搭档Dudley为人谨慎，一直尝试劝阻John不要太冒险，但John却一意孤行。 面对一座陌生的大城市，面对工作与爱情，一个乡村女孩如何生存和抉择？而城里的女孩又有什么样的无奈与悲欢？。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.。
