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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).

Academy Awards 1945 --- Ceremony Number 18 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Art DirectionArt Direction: Wiard Ihnen; Interior Decoration: A. Roland FieldsWon
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Blood on the Sun (1945)

By Judy on Sep 17, 2008 From Movie Classics

I’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 &#821... Read full article

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Blood on the Sun Quotes:

Iris Hilliard: Japanese women aren't allowed to think. It's against the law.
[first lines]
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.
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Blood on the Sun Facts
According to the DVD sleeve notes, prior to production, James Cagney trained intensively in the martial-art of judo in preparation for his role in this movie. Cagney trained under Ken Kuniyuki who was a 5th Degree Judo Master and insisted he perform his own stunts in the movie. He said in his memoirs: "I grew so fond of judo I used to keep in shape with it until a back injury I picked up doing something else put me on the sidelines." Moreover, another instructor for Cagney was former LAPD policeman John Halloran who plays the role of Captain Oshima in the film and can be seen in the movie's closing fight sequence. Apparently, Halloran quit the police force after FBI agents investigated him because he was an expert in judo.
As Iris Hilliard in this film, this was Sylvia Sidney's first screen appearance for about four years. She had last appeared on-screen in 1941 as Flo Lorraine in The Wagons Roll at Night.
Filmed in 1944 and released in 1945, this movie was made a few years after the 7th December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
In 1993, a computer-colorized version of this movie was made.
James Cagney has long being associated with the phrase "You dirty rat!". Though he actually said in the movie Taxi! "Come out and take it, you dirty, yellow-bellied rat" and not "You dirty rat!", Cagney is heard saying "dirty rats" in this movie.
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