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  1. Blood on the Sun is a fairly good World War II espionage thriller set in imperial Japan. There is a fair amount of intrigue and suspense and Cagney carries the picture on the strength of his patriotic conviction, charisma, and judo.

  2. Blood on the Sun. NEW. Reporter Nick Condon works for a newspaper in Tokyo and publishes a story exposing the Japanese government's imperialist plans. When government officers seize the...

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  3. Blood on the Sun is a 1945 American spy thriller film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney and Porter Hall. The film is based on a fictional history behind the Tanaka Memorial document. The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for a Black & White ( Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields) film in 1945.

  4. Feb 24, 2024 · KL Studio Classics. Blu-ray. Now it can be told — even if it’s total fiction! James Cagney takes his rough & tumble ways to Tokyo to scoop the existence of a world domination conspiracy 11 years before Pearl Harbor! It’s The Front Page meets Yojimbo circa 1945, except that Cagney’s scenarists have Tokyo militarists behaving like Chicago mobsters.

  5. Dec 2, 2019 · Movie Review: Blood on the Sun (1945) WARNING: SPOILERS A tough American man (with a hint of the gangster) and a beautiful woman (foreign, exotic) are trapped in an Axis country before America’s entry into World War II.

  6. Jan 24, 2017 · Blood on the Sun (1945) 1945, William Cagney Productions. James Cagney stars in this classic World War II-set drama that can be said to be the first true American martial arts drama. Nick Condon is an American journalist in Tokyo just after the start of World War II.

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  8. As noted by the New York Times review, the highly debated plan was not exposed by an American journalist, as depicted in the film. According to a Hollywood Reporter news item, in May 1944, producer William Cagney approached Orson Welles about appearing in the picture.

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