视频简介
为了逃离令人窒息的繁忙生活，库珀（丹尼斯·奎德 Dennis Quaid 饰）带着妻子利尔（莎朗·斯通 Sharon Stone 饰）从车水马龙的繁华大都市搬到了人烟稀少的纽约州郊外，在那里，他们入住了冷川庄园。曾经，这里被装潢的富丽堂皇，各路名流出入其间，好不热闹。可随着时间的推移，庄园因为无人修缮而渐渐荒芜。 库珀和利尔相信，通过他们不懈的努力能够使庄园恢复往昔的荣光，与此同时，夫妻两人亦发现，他们的邻居幸运的是好相处的那种人。戴尔（斯蒂芬·多尔夫 Stephen Dorff 饰）是庄园原来的主人，出狱后，他回到了这片本该属于他的土地。表面上，戴尔答应帮助库珀和利尔修整庄园，但内心里，他还有这另外的盘算。。讲述雄心勃勃的企业家Rory带着他的美国妻子和孩子回到家乡英国，探索新的商机。而在放弃了安全的美国郊区生活后，他们居住在80年代古英式庄园里，新环境将对家庭造成巨大威胁，这栋怪异的独立楼房让家人之间隔阂越来越深，每个人都进入了一个自我毁灭的循环，不知道自己能否生存下来。。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.。
