演唱会将以“青春当燃,不设限”为主题,与观众共度难忘之夜,邀约实力唱将和深受年轻人喜爱的新生代,通过“青春当聚”“、青春当歌”、“青春当燃”三大篇章,共同感受动感地带芒果卡带来的青春活力音乐盛典。。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.。影片架构在一个充满阴影和灰暗色彩的超现实主义世界中,剧情的主角是两个没有提及名字的少年(根津甚八 配音)与少女(兵藤真子 配音)。少女随身带着一颗神秘的蛋,她花许多的时间在某个歌德式的死城里搜集各式瓶子与手工艺品。身上背着一把十字型武器的少年在某天也随着一种神秘的机械来到这个城镇。同时,巨大腔棘鱼的身影在城镇上方出现,城市里的人也成群的活过来开始用长枪猎捕这些鱼群。在少女如巨穴般的瓶子中,就像个庇护所一般,里面收藏着蒐藏品。少年等少女入睡后将那颗神秘的蛋打破。少女表现得很生气并紧跟着已经离开的少年。最后少女沉入了溪谷中死去,她口中吐出来的气泡最后都化作了一颗颗的蛋。
本片由日本导演押井守以及知名插画家天野喜孝合作,德间书店于1985年发行,并于2007年以DVD形式再版。影片旁白由野田圭一担任。。