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一座蕴藏着巨大铜矿脉，为战火洗刷而四散飘零的热带岛屿；一名性格古怪，拒绝跟随大部队逃亡的白人教师，在钴蓝色的海洋与天空之间拉开了故事的序幕。 沃茨老师（休·劳瑞饰）好奇心旺盛且为人刻薄，在独自清理完校舍的废墟后，他开始每天对孩子们朗读查尔斯·狄更斯的名作《远大前程》聊以解闷。伴随着终日回荡于远山之间的炮火声响，小说中雾都伦敦与奔走其中的孤儿皮普的影像在十三岁少女玛蒂尔达和其他孩子的脑海中日渐如令人屏息惊叹的高塔般浮出水面，使他们暂时忘却了战争在海岛上投下的阴影。 诚如沃茨所言，”为书所获，即便忘却呼吸也可维持生命。“ 被沃茨与孩子们所激励，越来越多的居民开始加入到叙述者的行列中。那些被一度忘却的隐秘往事在黑夜中被不断点燃，重新焕发昔日的光彩。但战火仍在蔓延，这艘名为”故事“的想象之方舟能将为了生存而每日奔走寻求庇护的人们带向何方，我们尚不得知......。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.。
