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范俊华是城中医生，父亲百万虽富甲一方，却吝啬成性，常催俊华回乡迎娶素未谋面的未婚妻马梅芳。原来梅芳也到了城中修读艺术，一次忽染喉疾，跟表妹区美英到俊华诊所看病，认识了俊华和助手毕烈，还邀请他们参加学校的游艺会。美英父亲常希望女儿嫁得金龟婿，在游艺会上误会毕烈是有钱人，谄媚奉承，待得知真相后，对他大为反感。百万诈病骗儿子回乡成亲，梅芳亦被促回乡。两人分别在结婚前夕离家出走，情急之际，美英父提议由美英代嫁，而范家亦以毕烈冒充俊华成亲。婚后翌日，美英与毕烈合计，指百万骗婚，要胁他掏出三十万作赔偿，再将钱汇给俊华开医院。俊华和梅芳乌龙逃婚，而范家和马家终得悉大家都是李代桃僵，遂赶到城中将真相告知他俩，二人终缔结美满姻缘。。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.。