

Blood Is Dry
Genres
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.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
87 min
Release Date
1960-10-09
Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
Vote Count
11
Vote Average
6.5
Keiji Sada
Takashi Kiguchi
Shinichirō Mikami
Harada
Mari Yoshimura
Yuki Nonaka
Masao Oda
Kaneko Iwasaki
Ikuyo
Asao Sano
Yūko Kashiwagi
Takamaru Sasaki
Ichirō Sugai
Shinjiro Matsuzaki
Takeshi Hasegawa
Hirayoshi Aono
Miyoko Nakamura
Masahiko Arima
Akio Tanaka
Rokkō Toura
Yukari Yamashina
Actress B
Keiko Hori
Actress A
Takeo Matsushita
Ichiro Mikuni
Jun'ichi Tanaka
Chiharu Kuri
Jenny Aida
Shigechika Satō
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