Blood on the Sun (1945) | |
| Director(s) | Frank Lloyd |
| Producer(s) | William Cagney |
| Top Genres | Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller/Suspense, War |
| Top Topics | World War II |
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Blood on the Sun Overview:
Blood on the Sun (1945) was a Action - Drama Film directed by Frank Lloyd and produced by William Cagney.
SYNOPSIS
Set in the 1930s, an American newspaper editor (Cagney) working in Japan discovers the insidious "Tanaka Plan" while investigating the double murder of a fellow reporter and the reporter's wife. If he is to warn the world about this Japanese plot for world domination, he must stay alive and out of the hands of the secret police with the help of Iris (Sidney), a beautiful Chinese-American spy.
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Academy Awards 1945 --- Ceremony Number 18 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Art Direction | Art Direction: Wiard Ihnen; Interior Decoration: A. Roland Fields | Won |
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Blood on the Sun (1945)
By Judy on Sep 17, 2008 From Movie ClassicsI’ve now seen several films with James Cagney as a journalist, but this is my least favourite on this theme. In this movie he plays a crusading editor with an American newspaper based in Tokyo. I have to say I thought this was pretty bad – rather like a cut-price copy of Casablanca ̵... Read full article
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Quotes from Blood on the Sun
Arthur Bickett: But gentlemen, I know nothing about this article being printed. I was out of town.
Secret Police Major Kajioka: Then let me read what is printed here in your paper. "If Japan wants to control China we must first crush the United States just as in the past we have to fight in the Russo-Japanese war."
Nick Condon: Forgive your enemies, but first get even.
Iris Hilliard: Japanese women aren't allowed to think. It's against the law.
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Facts about Blood on the Sun
When Iris Hillaird (Sylvia Sidney) tells Nick Condon (James Cagney) that they cannot be together because she is half-Japanese and half-Caucasian, Condon replies that he too is of mixed race. "I'm half-Irish and half-Norwegian." In real life, James Cagney was the son of an Irish-born father and a Norwegian-born mother.
Robert Armstrong who played Tojo wore a set of false teeth to make his jaw line as much like Tojo's as possible. However, with the teeth in place, when Bob spoke his lines he could not be understood. So, back to the studio Bob went, to stand in a soundproof booth and loop his lines, making what his character said understandable.
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