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赌城拉斯维加斯的一家著名赌场，近日决定举办一场奖金高达一千万美元的牌术比赛，此消息一经传出便轰动全美赌坛，来自全国各地的赌术高手纷纷摩拳擦掌、聚集到此地，意图一决高下。 前来参加比赛的赌坛巨匠们不仅赌术上个个身手不凡，个性方面也千奇百怪，其中有以宰牲为乐的赌坛名将"德国佬"(沃纳·赫尔佐格饰)，身为五个孩子的母亲的职业牌手蕾恩(切瑞尔·海尼斯饰)，同为职业牌手、为与妹妹蕾恩比拼赌术而特来参赛的拉里(大卫·克罗斯饰)，有着轻微精神问题和严重自闭症、但却被公认为数学天才的哈罗德(克利斯·帕内尔饰)，因夺得一场在线牌局的冠军而获得此次比赛的入场卷、其实对真实牌局一窍不通的安迪(理查德·凯德)，还有从祖父继承来大名鼎鼎的"兔脚赌场"、现在却因大量负债而不得不亲自参加比赛的赌场老板"独眼龙"杰克(伍迪·哈里森饰)...各路高手齐聚赌场，个个对一千万美元虎视眈眈...。故事发生在饼干城，这里所有的一切都是饼干做成的。在这里生活的人们，也是各式各样的饼干。在这个饼干城里，唯一的一个探长总是希望这个纯朴的小城里有惊天动地的大事发生，而他希望自己有一天能够成为城里的英雄......。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.。
