Blood on the Sun

(1945)

98 minutes.

Directed by Frank Lloyd

Cast: James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Wallace Ford, Rosemary DeCamp and Robert Armstrong

Film / Action / Drama / Romance / World War II

Nick Condon is the feisty and successful newspaper editor of the Tokyo Chronicle in the 1930's. Condon 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 Condon'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 Iris Hilliard, a Eurasian Chinese sympathizer and double agent, he endeavors to deliver the document to the American embassy in Japan.