Blood on the Sun (1945)
Having a wonderful time In Tokyo!
Director: Frank Lloyd · Writers: Garrett Fort, Lester Cole, Nathaniel Curtis
Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda of the time.
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Director
Frank Lloyd
Cast
James Cagney
Nick Condon 
Sylvia Sidney
Iris Hilliard 
Porter Hall
Arthur Bickett 
John Emery
Premier Gilchi Tanaka 
Robert Armstrong
Col Hideki Tojo 
Wallace Ford
Ollie Miller 
Rosemary DeCamp
Edith Miller 
John Halloran
Capt. Oshima 
Leonard Strong
Hijikata 
James Bell
Charley Sprague 
Marvin Miller
Yamada 
Rhys Williams
Joseph Cassell User Reviews (1)
James Cagney is a journalist in pre-war Tokyo who gets embroiled in a tussle between the forces of Imperial aggression led by John Emery ("Tanaka") and those of peaceful conciliation headed by "Prince Tatsugu" (Frank Puglia). When the expansionists realise that Cagney is not going to play along - after bribery/threats and blackmail all fail to convince him; his very life is soon in peril - made worse once he is given a letter from the Prince that his opponents need back at all costs. Made at the end of WWII, it is a pretty obvious slice of propaganda, though it is tempered by some respect for the decent Japanese who did not want war, and it reflects their sense of "honour" in quite an interesting fashion - is it to the glory of the ancestors or just glorified cowardice? Cagney carries this pretty much single handedly. Marvin Miller is quite menacing as the dastardly "Yamada" too, but Syl…
