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北京某研究院的地下室里，住着一群尚无分房资格的大龄青年。朱一丹好不容易争取到一间小屋——与推销员罗大侠合住一个单元，成为青年中第一个即将“爬上地面”的幸运儿。这天，他的女朋友尹澜澜和初有成、孙晓琪等伙伴设宴为他送行。席间，青年们从房管处的老曹口中获悉，明天将要分配一批住房，但前提是必须持有结婚证。正当大家为朱一丹和尹澜澜庆幸时，他们却向众人宣布决定分手。为了把朱一丹挤出去，罗大侠和妻子小枫在门厅里设置了许多“路障”；还用面糊堵住了朱一丹小屋的锁眼，害得乔迁的朱一丹在门厅睡了一夜。青年们为了分到房子纷纷行动起来。尹澜澜也结交了新的男朋友——马自达。谁知，马自达一见到孙晓琪立刻转了向，尹澜澜痛苦万分。一天，小混混丁三趁大侠不在家，企图调戏小枫，被朱一丹赶走，小枫对朱十分感激。一个偶然的机会，朱一丹与初有成的表妹晶晶相遇，二人一见钟情。逛商店时，晶晶看中了一套时装，朱一丹在付钱时才尴尬地发现自己看错了价码，囊中款项根本不够。一天，小枫在洗澡时煤气中毒，朱一丹把她抱出浴室做人工呼吸，恰被出差归来的大侠撞见。大侠不问青红皂白，对朱一丹大打出手，小枫一气之下回了娘家。在朱一丹的劝导下，夫妻二人和好如初。晶晶进了外企，并被派到南方任职。朱一丹买下那套时装，赶到机场为她送行，却意外地得到晶晶要与他分手的消息。但朱一丹并没有被痛苦压垮，很快振作了起来。为了能够分到住房，照顾瘫痪的老父亲，尹澜澜情急之下，竟决定嫁给年愈50的单身汉老曹。为了帮助尹澜澜，朱一丹决定跟她“假结婚”。洞房花烛之时，这一对新人旧情萌发假戏成真。。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.。