Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material

A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer and at least one hydrophilic colloid layer on a support, wherein silver halide in the silver halide emulsion layer has a silver bromide content of 40 to 90 mol %, and the silver halide emulsion layer in the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is spectrally sensitized with at least one kind of dye selected from dyes represented by any one of the following formulas (I) to (IV):

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• wherein, in the formula (I), Y1 and Y2 each independently represent a nonmetallic atom group required to form benzothiazole ring, benzoselenazole ring, naphthothiazole ring, naphthoselenazole ring or quinoline ring, where these heterocyclic rings may be substituted with a lower alkyl group, an alkoxyl group, an aryl group, hydroxyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group or a halogen atom, R31 and R32 each independently represent a lower alkyl group or an alkyl group having sulfo group or carboxyl group, R33 represents methyl group, ethyl group or propyl group, X1 represents an anion, n1 and n2 each independently represent 0 or 1, m1 represents 1 or 2, and m1 is 0 when an intramolecular salt is formed;
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• wherein, in the formula (II), Z1 and Z2 each independently represent an atomic group required to form a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring, Z3 represents an atomic group required to form a 5- or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring, which has a substituent (R43) on a nitrogen atom in Z3, R41 and R42 each independently represent an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aralkyl group or an aryl group, R43 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, a substituted amino group, amido group, imino group, an alkoxyl group or a heterocyclic group, where at least one of R41, R42 and R43 represents a water-soluble group, L11 to L19 each independently represent a methine group, m and n each independently represent 0, 1 or 2, 1 and p each independently represent 0 or 1, and X represents a counter ion;
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• wherein, in the formula (III), Y21, Y22 and Y23 each independently represent a —N(R24)- group, oxygen atom, sulfur atom or selenium atom, R21 represents an aliphatic group having 10 or less carbon atoms and a water-solubilizing group, R22, R23 and R24 each independently represent an aliphatic group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, where at least two of R22, R23 and R24 have a water-solubilizing group, V21 and V22 each independently represent hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxyl group or an aryl group, or V21 and V22 bind together to represent a group forming a condensed ring with the azole ring, L21 and L22 each independently represent a substituted or unsubstituted methine group, M21 represents an ion required to offset the total intramolecular charge, and n21 represents the number of the ion required to offset the total intramolecular charge;
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• wherein, in the formula (IV), Y1, Y2 and Y3 each independently represent —N(R5)—, oxygen atom, sulfur atom, selenium atom or tellurium atom, Z1 represents a nonmetallic atom group required to form a 5- or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group, which may form a condensed ring, R1 represents an aliphatic group having 8 or less carbon atoms and a water-solubilizing group, R2, R3, R4 and R5 each independently represent an aliphatic group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, where at least two of R2, R3, R4 and R5 have a water-solubilizing group, W represents oxygen atom, sulfur atom or ═C(E1) (E2) where E1 and E2 each independently represent an electron-withdrawing group, and E1 and E2 may bind together to form a keto ring or an acidic heterocyclic ring, L1 and L2 each independently represent a substituted or unsubstituted methine group, 1 represents 0 or 1, M1 represents an ion required to offset the total intramolecular charge, and n1 represents the number of the ion required to offset the total intramolecular charge.