本剧通过企业家向成晖、林一山、杨步真及他们后代的竞争和发展,反映了他们在新常态的背景下继续走在改革开放前列。在新基地的选址问题上他们起了冲突又和平解决,当年清华“本科女孩”张露来到温州考察,知道向成晖和林一山都在“走出去”和新能源产业有了突破,大为赞赏,自己最终也嫁给了林一山。杨步真的时尚城项目在互联网上做文章,虽然做明星的夫人与自己打起冷战,他仍乐此不疲。向成晖儿子向向、潘小勇和爱尔兰三人创办电商“品上谷”。杨天真和林丹凤创办“红酒堡”,历经波折。他们办的互联网慈善项目吸引者众,感情生活也是有声有色。三位企业家创办民营银行风浪迭起。他们的后代向向等恰好遇上中央对互联网全力支持的政策,正是抓住这一机遇,向向他们再次抢占了先机,温州新一代人又走向时代的最前沿。。以渡江战役为背景,再现了新中国成立前的关键时刻,人民解放军一支先遣分队潜入江南,打进虎穴斗智斗勇,命悬一线却与各种敌人殊死斗争,为祖国统一而舍生取义、无私拼搏,最终配合百万大军过长江,将红旗插遍中国。。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.。