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Blood Is Dry(1960)
Status: Released
Date: 1960-10-09
60%
13 Votes
Time: 1h 27m
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.
Languages: Japanese.
Countries:
Japan
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Blood Is Dry
Top 10 Billed Cast
佐田啓二
Takashi Kiguchi
三上真一郎
Harada
芳村真理
Yuki Nonaka
織田政雄
岩崎加根子
Ikuyo
佐野浅夫
Yūko Kashiwagi
佐々木孝丸
菅井一郎
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