Blood Is Dry

Blood Is Dry

6.3IMDb Score
Released:1960-10-09
Genre:Drama
Duration:87 min
Country:Japan
Director:Yoshishige Yoshida
Actors:Keiji Sada, Shinichirō Mikami, Mari Yoshimura, Masao Oda, Kaneko Iwasaki
Production:Shochiku

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.

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