尖嘴鱼类是最大,最快,最危险的海洋物种。人类试图记录这些海洋生物,无论是曼妙的旗鱼,剑鱼和这些鱼类的王后--因海明威的《老人与海》而不朽的马林鱼。海洋生物学家和电影制作人里克罗森塔尔穿越三大洋把它们捕捉到胶片上,并藉此希望激发人类保护这种濒危物种的热情。。机长弗兰克(丹尼斯·奎德 Dennis Quaid 饰)与飞机打交道多年,这次他将负责一架“凤凰号”货机,运送一批石油工人和物资到北京去。然而令他意想不到的是,飞机在途中遇到了风暴,弗兰克不得不迫降在荒无人烟的内蒙古戈壁滩上。幸好死伤人员并不多,然而他们的储备水却只够维持一个月的使用,但在一个月内能等到救援的可能性有如买彩票。饥饿和慌张中,幸存者间开始了各种意见分歧与争吵。最后一名自称是飞机设计师的乘客提议,用飞机残骸再造一架飞机自救。然而造飞机并非想象中那么简单,人心在不断尝试中渐渐消耗,仅存的生命之水也越来越少,重伤的“凤凰”还能否在广漠戈壁中涅槃重生?
本片翻拍自1965年同名电影,两者皆改编自英国小说家Elleston Trevor的同名小说。。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.。