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Blood Is Dry
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Blood Is Dry

Oct 9, 1960
1h 27m
★ 6.3

Overview

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own advantage by turning the incident into an advertising campaign. With the success of the campaign, however, he is no longer a desperate man pointing a gun to his head, but a potential leader who wishes to take advantage of his failed suicide.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Shochiku

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Cast

Keiji Sada

Takashi Kiguchi

Keiji Sada

Shinichirō Mikami

Harada

Shinichirō Mikami

Mari Yoshimura

Yuki Nonaka

Mari Yoshimura

Masao Oda

Masao Oda

Kaneko Iwasaki

Ikuyo

Kaneko Iwasaki

Asao Sano

Asao Sano

Yūko Kashiwagi

Yūko Kashiwagi

Takamaru Sasaki

Takamaru Sasaki

Ichirō Sugai

Ichirō Sugai

Shinjiro Matsuzaki

Shinjiro Matsuzaki

Takeshi Hasegawa

Takeshi Hasegawa

Hirayoshi Aono

Hirayoshi Aono

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