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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.。清朝初年，年幼的福临继承帝位，号顺治（朱泳腾 饰）。蒙古可汗女儿金蟾（倪睿思 饰）入宫后被封为格格，后被太后（博弘 饰）许配给十一阿哥博穆果尔（施丹江 饰），顺治懊恼不已，因为他暗恋金蟾许久。相处一段时间，金蟾发现十一阿哥心术不正，为人轻浮，她不甘嫁给他。金蟾的父亲曾救过多尔袞（寇振海 饰）的命，他为了不让金蟾知道真相，极力设计想把她早日嫁出去，伹他所有的安排都被聪明的金蟾一一化解。太后有意安排选多罗（林青 饰）为皇后，多尔袞却推荐了蒙古王公吴克善的女儿富察珍儿（沈力子 饰），顺治闻讯心灰意冷。多尔袞狩猎被人做了手脚，结果活活被马拖死，其下人树倒猢狲散。多罗与顺治大婚后生下皇子，金蟾不愿再留宫中，她决定回到大草原去，顺治闻讯不再留恋皇位，决定出家……。