Blood on the Sun (1945)

Nick Condon: Forgive your enemies, but first get even.

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[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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Iris Hilliard: Japanese women aren't allowed to think. It's against the law.

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The Japanese Tanaka Plan was examined in the documentary The Battle of China, 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."
As Iris Hilliard in this film, this was Sylvia Sidney's first screen appearance for about four years. She had last appeared on-screen in 1941 as Flo Lorraine in The Wagons Roll at Night.
Filmed in 1944 and released in 1945, this movie was made a few years after the 7th December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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