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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.。在非洲卢安瓜河谷，一头年老、满身战痕的公河马回望自己传奇的一生。它一只眼睛失明，身躯遍布深深伤痕，然而曾经它是这片星球上最大河马聚居地中的无冕之王。本纪录片讲述这头公河马跨越三十五年的生命历程。从脆弱幼崽起步，它面临鳄鱼、狮子环伺，依靠母亲的全力守护艰难成长。族群内部的混乱与争斗、旱季河道干涸、同类的死亡，都让它过早见识到残酷的自然法则。母亲离世后，它被逐出出生的族群，只能在新的河马群体中以谦卑姿态求生存。然而，它学会了坚韧与忍耐，懂得如何在严酷的旱季与雨季交替中活下去。随着岁月更迭，它逐渐壮大，体型与獠牙令它敢于一次次发起挑战。二十年积累的磨炼，将它推向命定的终极一战——一场为王的决斗。节目通过记录一头河马的生存故事，构建出了一段极富戏剧感的自然史诗，也是首次揭示河马鲜为人知的性格特质，展现这头庞大而敏感的动物如何从弱小幼崽蜕变为称霸一方的“巨兽之王”。。伊朗导演阿巴斯·基阿鲁斯塔米的作品。一群工程人员来到伊朗库尔德斯坦省的一个小村落。村民不知道他们为何而来，猜疑纷纷，甚至怀疑他们是来寻宝的。每天，工程师都要用无线电话和总部联络，但每次电话响起时他都要跑到山上的墓地去接听，好让他的无线电话可以接收地更清晰。工程师的注意力似乎是在一扇窗子，透过这窗子可以看见房间里有一个老妇正在弥留之际，我们不太清楚他为何会关注老妇的生死，但当影片完结时，基阿鲁斯塔米给观众上了一堂关于生命、尊严、信任、互助和爱的课程。。