Blood on the Sun
About Blood on the Sun
In 1920s Tokyo, American reporter Nick Condon gets the Tanaka Memorial, a paper the film treats as Japan's plan for wider power, and prints it. The Japanese reaction is the action. James Cagney plays Condon. Sylvia Sidney and Porter Hall are billed with him.
Cast & crew
More about Blood on the Sun
Frank Lloyd directed. Garrett Fort wrote it. William Cagney produced it. Theodor Sparkuhl photographed it. Miklós Rózsa composed the score. Walter Hannemann edited. United Artists released it. It runs 98 minutes. The story is a fiction built around the Tanaka Memorial. Wiard Ihnen and A. Roland Fields won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White.
Themes
Background
The picture uses 1920s Tokyo and the Tanaka Memorial as the frame for a wartime spy story.
Look
Theodor Sparkuhl photographed the black-and-white Tokyo sets that won the art-direction Oscar.
Music
Miklós Rózsa composed the score.
Preservation
Copies are on the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- John Emery, Robert Armstrong, Wallace Ford, Philip Ahn, and Hugh Beaumont are on the cast lists.
- The English Wikipedia calls the history behind the Tanaka Memorial fictional.
- Copies are on the Internet Archive and on Wikimedia Commons.
Awards
- Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White (Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields)
Scenes
- Condon publishes the memorial, and the people named in it come after him.
Also available
- Internet Archive (BloodontheSun)
