故事发生在上世纪三十年代末的江南水乡。民间抗日志士高明远率领的队伍是当地一支著名的抗日力量,在一次劫日军监狱救人行动中,他们偶遇新四军游击队,也遇到了曾经的同学—现任新四军游击队队长的心月。心月欣赏明远的人品和才能,希望明远加入新四军,共同抗日。明远和手下的兄弟们固执地凭借个人的力量对抗日军,险些铸成大错。在心月的帮助下,明远等人认识到自己的鲁莽和任性,幡然悔悟,加入游击队,与心月一起携手作战。虽然开始有些无所适从,但经过努力,大家逐渐适应了部队生活。他们英勇奋战,挫败了日军扫荡计划。明远和他的兄弟们也在战斗中成长,成为真正的革命战士,与此同时,明远和心月也碰撞出了爱情的火花。。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.。《境界的彼方》TV未放送特别篇,全1话,将随BD/DVD第7卷于2014年7月2日发售。同时,该卷音像制品中也会包含小剧场《境界的彼方:偶像裁判 ~迷茫依旧的审判之民~》的未放映特别篇,共2集。。