视频简介
A City based thriller that travels on the Hyperlink plot connecting the four youngsters from the different walks of lives. Maanagaram will focalize upon Chennai city as one of the major characters in this film, where the backdrops would indeed become a prominent ingredient of this tale.。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.。北宋年间，福建人吴本因母亲患半身不遂症，立志学医救母。后闻泉州回春堂陈义医术高明，登门恳求陈大夫下乡为其母治病。陈大夫感其孝，欣然应允，且见吴本天资聪颖，决意收其为徒。吴本留在陈大夫家学医，陈大夫后妻对他处处刁难，而陈大夫前妻所生之女春兰却百般呵护他。某日 ，大夫带吴本上山采药，遇强盗，大夫逃脱回家，吴本受伤为樵夫所救。 在岩洞，樵夫为他治伤，授以针灸之术，并赠予针灸医术手抄本。 大夫回家重病不起，吴本的师兄张鸿欲强奸春兰，一师弟趋前搭救，互相殴斗 ，踢翻炉火，房屋被焚。吴本赶回泉州，见回春堂已成废墟，遂携春兰回乡。他一面为母治病，一面钻研针灸 ，乡人慕名求医者日众。是年秋，漳泉一带鼠疫流行，死人无数，吴本不顾个人生命安危，入城行医，百姓感恩戴德，奉为神明。吴本逝世后，家家设神位供奉，祈求平安。后称吴本为“保生大帝”，造神像，建保安宫 ，此...。