以《欲望都市》为蓝本的香港喜剧片。Selina汪楚翘(刘嘉玲 饰)是一名事业有成的女强人,她是心理医生,但是多次不成功的恋爱经验让她自己患上了婚姻恐惧症。她与几名单身女郎,包括尖酸刻薄实战经验却不丰富的女作家关德娴(朱茵 饰),外表狂野爱刺激的倪险(蒙嘉慧 饰),爱打抱不平身手不凡的Mark(张文慈 饰)等组成了一个“八婆团”。在爱情路上坎坷的众人分别遭遇了不同的情感,Selina遇上了江湖大哥任初九(梁家辉 饰),并帮助前男友(钟镇涛 饰)的女儿Yuki(张柏芝 饰)从不良少女改邪归正;关德娴周旋于评论家石大班(许少雄饰)与英俊的大学生斯通(陈冠希 饰);倪险棋逢对手遇上了大陆来的大胆(陆毅 饰);而Yuki暗中与保镖许劲(许志安 饰)发生了感情。不管过程如何惊险刺激,最后众女郎都获得了圆满的爱情。。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.。John (杰瑞米艾伦斯饰)是一个在香港生活多年的英国摄影师|他的朋友Jim (罗宾布雷兹饰)经常光顾他的公寓. John迷恋酒吧主的女友Vivian (巩俐饰),但一直被她拒绝.就在香港回归之际, John发现自己患上了一种奇怪的白血病并且只剩下几个月的命.于是John, Jim,和一个他们在街上遇见的神秘女子Jean(张曼玉饰)开始用一个相机到处拍摄香港的景象,要在香港回归的最后一刻拍到真正的香港......。