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 (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.
(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).
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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
The DVD sleeve notes claim that this was one of the first American martial-arts movies. Though not a martial-arts movie by modern standards and definitions, judo is seen in the movie and with James Cagney performing it. Cagney insisted on doing his own stunts in the film.
The movie is based on the history behind Japan's alleged Tanaka Plan which is aka the Tanaka Memorial document. This allegedly was Prime Minister Baron Tanaka Giichi's militarist strategic plan for world domination prepared for Emperor Hirohito.
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