2血は渇いてるBlood Is Dry

• 87分
• 35mm・白黒

会社の人員整理に対してこめかみに銃口を突きつけて反対し、自殺未遂事件を起こした社員（佐田）。彼の行動は英雄視されてマスコミに取り上げられ、その衝撃のポーズは、とある生命保険会社のポスターとして、日本中に貼られていく。助監督時代に発表したシナリオ「英雄たちは渇く」を映画化。当時の日本映画界のヒューマニズム偏重を強烈に批判した問題作。

When his boss announces the company’s plans to downsize, a disgruntled employee (Keiji Sada) holds a gun to his head in protest. Though his suicide attempt fails, he is hailed as a hero in the media, with his defiant pose subsequently used on posters in a life insurance company’s nationwide advertising campaign. An adaptation of a screenplay (“Heroes Thirst”) Yoshida wrote during his time as an assistant director, Blood Is Dry proved controversial for its scathing critique o fthe humanism then prevalent in Japanese cinema.

1960（松竹大船）（監・脚）吉田喜重（撮）成島東一郎（美）佐藤公信（音）林光（出）佐田啓二、三上真一郎、芳村真理、織田政雄、岩崎加根子、佐野浅夫、柏木優子、佐々木孝丸、菅井一郎、戸浦六宏、佐藤重臣