Blood Is Dry

Oct 9, 1960

1h 27m

★ 6.0

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

Blood Is Dry Trailers

Cast

Takashi Kiguchi

Keiji Sada

Harada

Shinichirō Mikami

Yuki Nonaka

Mari Yoshimura

Masao Oda

Ikuyo

Kaneko Iwasaki

Asao Sano

Yūko Kashiwagi

Takamaru Sasaki

Ichirō Sugai

Shinjiro Matsuzaki

Takeshi Hasegawa

Hirayoshi Aono

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