简介
北洋时期，上海滩各方势力犬牙交错。有志之士纷纷加入革命党，遭到了北洋军阀的迫害，日本人也协助北洋军阀大肆抓捕革命党。陈真身为爱国热血青年，为师父报仇后，准备重整精武门。革命党杨芸双前往秘密地点与上级领导李国风接头时被叛徒出卖，李国风为掩护杨芸双撤退，被日本人抓住。杨芸双逃跑途中遇到陈真，从日本人手里逃脱。杨芸双请求陈真帮忙救出李国风，陈真因想重振精武门，不想与日本人作对，婉拒后整日教育徒弟习武强身。杨芸双打探到李国风被日本人关押在秘密监狱，而石川凉介用尽酷刑也没能拿到想要的情报。杨芸双再次找上陈真，求其帮忙，陈真深知日本人的凶残，也明白不能独善其身，决定救人。次日，陈真被日本人带到监狱，并被石川凉介要求参与擂台比武。擂台上，陈真与石川凉介打的难分伯仲，几番殊死较量后，陈真打败了石川。同时，杨芸双众人也攻入监狱，两方混战在一起……。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.。北冥国危难在即，少年将军请求出征。此次出征凶险异常，生死未卜，为保家族血脉，出征前祖母为少年娶妻。五年后少年将军凯旋而归。和他同乘一马的白衣女子是谁？五年前他娶的是谁，他并没有在意。五年前她嫁的是谁，她亦不在意，她只想有一处容身之地。五年后重新相见，他已不是当年那个青涩少年。。