Description

Blood on the Sun (1945) is a film starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. The film is based on a fictional history behind the Tanaka Memorial document.
The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for a Black-and-white (Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields) film in 1945. A computer-colorized version of the film was created in 1993.
In 1973, the film entered the List of films in the public domain in the United States due to the copyright claimants’ failure to renew the copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.

Cast

• James Cagney as Nick Condon
• Sylvia Sidney as Iris Hilliard
• Porter Hall as Arthur Bickett
• John Emery (actor) as Premier Giichi Tanaka
• Robert Armstrong (actor) as Col. Hideki Tojo
• Wallace Ford as Ollie Miller
• Rosemary DeCamp as Edith Miller
• John Halloran as Capt. Oshima
• Leonard Strong (actor) as Hijikata
• James Bell (actor) as Charley Sprague
• Marvin Miller (actor) as Yamada
• Rhys Williams (actor) as Joseph Cassell
• Frank Puglia as Prince Tatsugi
• Hugh Beaumont as Johnny Clarke