BLOODY THIRST (PG) by YOSHIDA Yoshishige - Japanese Film Festival Singapore 2010

Yoshida's second Shochiku assignment turned away from the studio's dominant focus on troubled youth and generational conflict in order to paint a darker and more despairing portrait of society in a state of moral collapse. Taking sharp aim at Japan's harshly competitive corporate culture, Blood Thirsty follows a hapless salaryman whose desperate gesture to prevent the mass layoff of his colleagues is ruthlessly and absurdly exploited by his company for a deeply ironic advertising campaign. Based on one of Yoshida's original stories, Blood Thirsty is a formally daring and edgy film whose withering critique of corporate capitalism and the alienation of the working force remains particularly urgent today.

1960, 87 min, b/w, 35mm, Japanese with English subtitles, PG
Directed by YOSHIDA Yoshishige / 吉田喜重
Cast: SADA Keiji, MIKAMI Shinichiro, YOSHIMURA Mari
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