- Blood on the Sun
Infobox Film | name = Blood on the Sun
director =Frank Lloyd
producer =William Cagney
writer = Garrett FortLester Cole
starring =James Cagney Sylvia Sidney Porter Hall
music =Miklós Rózsa
cinematography =Theodor Sparkuhl
editing = Walter Hannemann
distributor =United Artists
released =April 26 1945
runtime = 98 min|
language = English
budget = ?
imdb_id = 0037547"Blood on the Sun" (1945) is a film starring
James Cagney andSylvia Sidney . The film is based on the history behind theTanaka Memorial document.The film won the
Academy Award for Best Art Direction for a Black & White film in 1945. A computer-colorized version of the film was created in 1993.ynopsis
In pre-
World War II Tokyo an American newspaper editor working for an English-language daily paper aimed at the American business community is given a document relating to Japan's foreign affairs which could have political ramifications if found. He meets up with Iris Hilliard, a woman who wants to secure the document even if it means dealing with the Japanesesecret police and their threats.Cast
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James Cagney asNick Condon
*Sylvia Sidney as Iris Hilliard
*Porter Hall as Arthur Bickett
*John Emery as Premier Giichi Tanaka
*Robert Armstrong as Col. Hideki Tojo
*Wallace Ford as Ollie Miller
*Rosemary DeCamp as Edith Miller
*John Halloran as Capt. Oshima
*Leonard Strong as Hijikata
*James Bell as Charley Sprague
*Marvin Miller as Yamada
*Rhys Williams as Joseph Cassell
*Frank Puglia as Prince Tatsugi
*Hugh Beaumont as Johnny ClarkeTrivia
*Cagney learned
judo for the action sequences of the film. His instructor was John Halloran, a former Los Angeles police officer. In the movie, he plays Capt. Oshima, the thug who Cagney has a colossal fight with at the end of the movie.*The bar at the beginning of the film is an exact replica of the bar in
Frank Lloyd Wright 's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.External links
*imdb title|id=00037547|title=Blood on the Sun
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