Blood Is Dry
1960

Blood Is Dry

血は渇いてる (Original Title)

An employee, Takashi Kiguchi, points a gun at his head and asks the company to stop layoffs, while he is willing to give his life in exchange for the opportunity to continue working for other workers. Kiguchi's suicide attempt did not succeed due to the intervention of his friend, and the incident became a news sensation. Because of Kiguchi's willingness to sacrifice himself to save others, an insurance company was even willing to hire Kiguchi to promote the company. Kiguchi, who survived, found himself in the media spotlight and became a celebrity whose fate was no longer in his own hands .....

1960年10月9日

Now that I've been fired, I have a kind of strange sensation. I feel like something's sucking me up, and I get a cold sweat. And my wife, I still don't know when I'm going to be able to tell her. To deal with this at my age...I feel like I've been abandoned. It's as if I were suffocating.

It's like a social crisis. That's the Japanese for you: suicide, hara-kiri, execution...

People are truly oppurtunists...One day, they tempt you, and the next they throw you crazy looks. 

Life insurance and attempted suicide: It's an altogether new combination. This man's spirit of sacrifice is rare compared to prevailing selfishness, It goes well with the image of life insurance.

Kiguchi is not what you think. He possesses a rare honesty. I don't believe you. "Do your worst, forget the best".

- For such a famous guy, he's not profitable. Such a parasite! Like a tick!
- This world's a living hell. It's not just me.

- And you pull yourself to the top by the force of your arms. Be careful, you're heading for a fall one day. Japan is a house of cards. One finger could make it fall.
- And I'll be that finger!

- I'm not very smart, but I'm rather proud of my body.
- You're direct. It's the same for me: all in the body. The body, it's the foundation... You're all right!

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