视频简介
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.。凯瑟琳（琳达·汉密尔顿 Linda Hamilton 饰）是一位精明强干的律师，某日，她遭到了歹徒袭击，身负重伤，昏倒在公园下水道里。就在这时，一名长着狮头的怪异男子出现了，他将凯瑟琳带回了自己位于底下的家中，细心地照料她的伤势。原来男子名叫文森特（朗·普尔曼 Ron Perlman 饰），在地下还生活着很多和他一样的人。 随着时间的推移，凯瑟琳渐渐爱上了温柔善良的文森特，而文森特亦是如此，两人难舍难分，然而，凯瑟琳必须回到属于她的地上世界。这段地下经历改编了凯瑟琳的人生观，之后，她成为了一名庭审律师和调查员，特殊的职业让凯瑟琳的生活充满了危险，然而，每一次，默默守护着她的文森特都会在紧急时刻现身，拯救爱人于水火之中。。
