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Blood on the Sun -- The U.S. editor of a Tokyo newspaper smuggles out a Japanese military plan several years before World War II
Blood on the Sun -- Nick Condon is a newspaper reporter working in Tokyo who refuses to toe the Japanese line on the expansionist policies of the anti-democratic Imperialist government...

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Director:
Frank Lloyd
Writers:
Lester Cole (screenplay)
Nathaniel Curtis (additional scenes)
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Release Date:
15 October 1945 (Sweden) See more »
Genre:
Action | Drama | War | Romance | Thriller See more »
Tagline:
To know their secret is to court Death ! See more »
Plot:
Nick Condon is a newspaper reporter working in Tokyo who refuses to toe the Japanese line on the expansionist... See more » | Full synopsis »
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Awards:
Won Oscar. See more »
NewsDesk:
Frank Lloyd: Master Of Screen Melodrama
 (From Alt Film Guide. 5 January 2010, 10:50 PM, PST)
User Reviews:
Tokyo, Mon Amour See more (28 total) »

Cast

  (in credits order) (verified as complete)

James Cagney ... Nick Condon

Sylvia Sidney ... Iris Hilliard
Porter Hall ... Arthur Bickett
John Emery ... Premier Giichi 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
Frank Puglia ... Prince Tatsugi
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Philip Ahn ... Secret Police Captain Yomamoto (uncredited)
Hugh Beaumont ... Johnny Clarke (uncredited)
Edward Biby ... Bar Patron (uncredited)
Oy Chan ... Chinese Servant (uncredited)
Hugh Ho Chang ... Secret Police Major Kajioka (uncredited)
Gregory Gaye ... American Newspaperman Bogardis (uncredited)
Sam Harris ... Bar Patron (uncredited)
Joseph Kim ... Hayoshi (uncredited)
Grace Lem ... Amah (uncredited)
Arthur Loft ... American Newspaperman (uncredited)
Harold Miller ... Bar Patron (uncredited)
George Paris ... Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan ... American Newspaperman Johnson (uncredited)
Billy Wayne ... American Newspaperman (uncredited)
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Directed by
Frank Lloyd 
 
Writing credits
Lester Cole (screenplay)

Nathaniel Curtis (additional scenes)

Garrett Fort (story)

Frank Melford (idea)

Produced by
William Cagney .... producer
 
Original Music by
Miklós Rózsa (music by) (as Miklos Rozsa)
 
Cinematography by
Theodor Sparkuhl (director of photography)
 
Film Editing by
Walter Hannemann 
Truman K. Wood 
 
Production Design by
Wiard Ihnen 
 
Set Decoration by
A. Roland Fields 
 
Costume Design by
Michael Woulfe 
 
Makeup Department
Josef Norin .... makeup artist
Ern Westmore .... makeup artist
 
Production Management
Daniel Keefe .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Harvey Dwight .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
Richard DeWeese .... sound recorder
 
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Robert Martien .... wardrobe
 
Music Department
Paul Neal .... music mixer (uncredited)
Eugene Zador .... orchestrator (uncredited)
 
Other crew
George M. Arthur .... assistant to producer (as George Arthur)
Alice Barlow .... technical advisor
 
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Runtime:
98 min | 94 min (TCM print)
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Japanese
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 See more »
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
USA:Approved (certificate # 10705) | Canada:PA (Ontario) | West Germany:12 (f) | Norway:16 | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating: abridged version: 92m) (2004) | UK:PG (video rating: partly re-edited) (2003) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG (video rating) (1987) (1989) (1998) (1999) (2002) (2004)
Filming Locations:
General Service Studios - 1040 N. Las Palmas, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Company:
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Did You Know?

Trivia:
The Japanese Tanaka Plan was examined in the documentary The Battle of China (1944)], episode 6 of the "Why We Fight" series by Frank Capra. According to the book 'Brassey's Guide to War Films' by Alun Evans, this movie is "Fiction highlighting fact, but a strange release date. One would have thought that the unearthing of the Tanaka Plan . . . might have received dramatic attention by Hollywood before Pearl Harbor, rather than at the end of the war. The Tanaka Plan, the blueprint for Japanese world domination - which actually specified the taking out of Pearl Harbor - was uncovered in 1927, but this dramatisation has [James] Cagney as U.S. newspaper man in [19]'20s Japan printing the story."See more »
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Right after Ollie Miller gets shot you see him stumbling to the ground. When he gets up, under his left elbow you can see carpet moving in what should be grass.See more »
Quotes:
[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."
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Going Hollywood: The War Years (1988)See more »

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Tokyo, Mon Amour, 19 April 2008
Author: wes-connors from Earth

James Cagney (as Nick Condon) is a reporter in Tokyo; a dutiful, precognizant American, he confronts the increasing grip of Fascism on the Japanese people, during the reign of Tanaka Giichi. Sylvia Sidney (as Iris Hilliard), is a mysterious part-Chinese woman, who provides Mr. Cagney with intrigue and romance. While Ms. Sydney is somewhat successful in her portrayal, the other Japanese impersonations are embarrassing. The movie bases much of its storyline on the existence of the "Tanaka Document", a Hitler-type blueprint for evil, which was more likely a propagandist's creation. Under these circumstances, Cagney and company's attempt to produce convincing entertainment collapses.

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