视频简介
弗朗西斯（科洛·格蕾斯·莫瑞兹 Chloe Grace Moretz 饰）是一位单纯善良的女大学生，一天，在地铁上，弗朗西斯捡到了一个手提袋，寻着手提袋里的字条上的地址，弗朗西斯敲响了格雷塔（伊莎贝尔·于佩尔 Isabelle Huppert 饰）家的大门。格雷塔感谢了弗朗西斯的善举，言谈之间，弗朗西斯得知她是一名寡妇，终日生活在孤独之中，顿时对她心生怜悯。 就这样，弗朗西斯和格雷塔之间的走动变得频繁起来，两人的关系越来越热络，甚至被人视为母女。某日，弗朗西斯偶然在格雷塔家里发现了很多和她当初捡到的手提袋同款的袋子，每一个袋子里都放着写有地址的字条，这让弗朗西斯开始意识到，自己似乎落入了格雷塔设下的圈套之中。。故事的主角是一个沉默的独行杀手（Isaach De Bankolé 饰），他永远只点两杯咖啡，在无聊的时候练习太极，不为任何诱惑所动。某日，他接受一项神秘的任务，随后启程前往西班牙马德里。在这里他必须和一个又一个联系人作单线联系，而联系的凭证便是红色或绿色的火柴盒。这些联系人中，有谨小慎微但热爱音乐的中年男子（路伊斯·托沙 Luis Tosar 饰），有打扮出众钟爱电影的白衣女子（蒂尔达·斯维顿 Tilda Swinton 饰），有醉心波希米亚文化的老人（约翰·赫特 John Hurt 饰），更有沉迷分子学的神秘东方女性（工藤夕贵 饰）。按照他们的指引，杀手一步步逼近了他的目标……。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.。