故事发生在20世纪30年代的希腊的一个岛上,欧莎爱上了海军中尉斯皮罗斯。斯皮罗斯要暂时远航,离开这座岛,他让欧莎等他回来,但是没多久,母亲独自决定把她嫁给了一个经济条件不错的船长尼科斯,欧莎无奈接受,但是她的心理一直爱着斯皮罗斯。后来她得知妹妹订婚了,妹夫不是别人而是她没有忘记的斯皮罗斯。最痛苦的是他们要生活在一个屋檐下……。叽歪老表是一对永不消停的“虫兄虫弟”。表哥大叽是来自北方“南漂”的瓢虫,天性憨直傻楞,但却好运爆棚,遇事总能逢凶化吉。表弟小歪是在南方本地生活的潮虫,满脑子都是精明算计的歪脑筋鬼主意,但却总是搬起石头砸自己的脚。两兄弟混迹在游乐园旁的草地,遭遇了形形色色的人和事,开始了他们不停作妖捣蛋的爆笑日常。。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.。