Blood on the Sun
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List Price: $7.98
In Theaters : 01 January, 1945
DVD Release : 08 February, 2000 |
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Blood on the Sun description
Cagney is a crusading newspaper editor in 1930s Japan who's come into possession of the "Tanaka Plan" for world domination. Amidst political intrigue and crossed loyalties, Cagney must now find a way to warn the outside world. A fine, entertaining melodrama that's based in fact, with Cagney as good as ever, but this time with judo chops. If only the J ... review details
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Post WW2 anti-Japanese flick
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The pugnacious James Cagney stars in this very heavily propagandized 1945 flick "Blood on the Sun". Cagney plays Nick Condon the feisty and successful newspaper editor of the Tokyo Chronicle in the 1930's. Cagney receives a document spelling out the militaristic intentions of Japan formulated by Baron Tanaka. The plan calls for the conquering of China as the initial step towards world domination.
When Cagney's top reporter and wife are murdered by the Japanese secret police, he realizes his own life is in danger. With the aid of the exotic looking Sylvia Sidney, playing a Eurasian Chinese sympathizer and double agent, he endeavors to deliver the document to the American embassy in Japan.
The movie amateurishly portrayed the Japanese, who were heavily made up Caucasians, stereotypically as nearsighted, bespectacled, bucktoothed yellow demons. I suppose the world climate at the time demanded this type of treatment to our hated enemies by Hollywood. It was a bit too thick for me however |
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