空中情缘

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.。指挥家成镇（宋承宪饰）和他所率领的管弦乐团内的大提琴手秀妍（曹汝贞饰）即将结婚，但某天秀妍突然消失了，只留下了一段视频向成镇道别。失去秀妍的成镇虽然感到很痛苦，但他却被代替秀妍的大提琴手美珠（朴智贤饰）所吸引。某个雨夜，渴望彼此的成镇和美珠，在秀妍家做了无法被原谅的事，而被认为消失的秀妍，竟被关在无法独自逃脱的家中密室里，注视着他们……。十七岁的查理（Joséphine Japy 饰）乖巧懂事，是个十分讨人喜欢的女孩，和大部分同龄的姑娘们一样，查理对未来充满了美好而又光明的幻想。莎拉（Lou de Laâge 饰）满头金发，走在校园里十分惹眼，而她的性格和她的发色一样张扬而高调，萨拉向往无拘无束的自由生活，几乎就是循规蹈矩墨守成规的查理的对照面。 在充满了青春活力的校园中，这两个个性截然相反的女孩相遇了，只一眼，查理就被奔放开朗的萨拉给深深吸引。随着时间的推移，两人越走越近，最终成为了无话不谈的闺中密友，然而，交往的深入带来的却是友情的裂痕，无论是查理或是莎拉，都无法阻止这裂痕越来越大。。