2024年是中法建交60周年暨中法文化旅游年,适逢巴黎奥运会开幕之际,中央广播电视总台联合法国驻华大使馆共同推出的大型中法美食文化交流节目。 节目集结中法两国极具声望的20位新锐厨王展开巅峰竞演,由外交使节、知名文化学者等组成美食品鉴团,从食材挑选、烹饪手法、口味呈现等不同角度进行品鉴与分享,推荐菜品将入选“中法至臻厨王菜单”。。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.。穷极潦倒的克莉丝汀(凯瑟琳·弗洛饰),寂寞地穿梭在巴黎市街,日复一日地寻找食物银行的补给品维生。在一个天寒地冻的冬日,八岁小男孩苏力(玛哈玛杜雅法饰)站在她的栖息之处哭泣。询问后,克莉丝汀发现苏力跟母亲走散了,而两人的相似处境,让她们一同步上充满了爱与希望的寻亲之旅,共同勇闯巴黎的地下世界,试图寻找苏力的母亲。。