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.
Keiji Sada
Takashi Kiguchi
Shinichirō Mikami
Harada
Mari Yoshimura
Yuki Nonaka
Masao Oda
Kaneko Iwasaki
Ikuyo
Asao Sano
Yūko Kashiwagi
Takamaru Sasaki
Ichirō Sugai
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.
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