人妖杀千刀

本片根据导演自己的童年回忆拍摄，他的父母都是医生。一位女医生在乡下医院里为前来求诊的村民和和尚看病，她和一个兰花养殖场的主人热恋，同时，在一间城市医院里执业的一名医生爱上了她，而在他和他之间，却发生了一段不寻常的情感交流。导演仍以长镜头表现人物细腻的情感，片中不时出现一些幽默的小人物，譬如牙医兼职做歌星，求药的老和尚亦为他人施药，年轻的和尚一心想做唱片骑师等。。一对囚犯Serge和Mickey越狱离开监狱之后却遭人伏击，这是他们不得不去到Serge的老朋友Noel那庇护。Mickey却有自己的想法，认为Noel在与他作对，此时，他又得知自己竟然有个未曾谋面的女儿。危急之中，Mickey决定去绑架Noel的妻子，希望借此解决掉令人棘手的Noel……。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.。