Japanese-set movies immediately following WWII weren't very popular. If you decide to skip the James Cagney drama Blood on the Sun, you'll survive. It's not his finest hour, and besides a very impressive and extremely exhaustive fight scene towards the end of the movie, there's nothing really notable about it.
Jimmy plays an American reporter who stumbles upon a plan for the Japanese to take over the world. I don't know how Hollywood thought making this movie could possibly be good for race relations in America. In any case, the Japanese are the bad guys here. They want to take over, and they kill Wallace Ford, another reporter, who finds out about it. Then, when Jimmy finds out about it, they try to buy him off. I guess they can't try to kill the lead actor until the end of the movie. Jimmy has integrity (the first reporter ever!) and he refuses. He's soon joined by Sylvia Sidney (ridiculously cast as an Asian character), in their quest for truth and justice.
It might sound good, but it's not the best. It doesn't feel good to have a one-dimensional movie about Japanese villains, and Sylvia's casting is just silly. At least Philip Ahn is in the movie, but why couldn't Hollywood just cast an Asian female costar?
Jimmy plays an American reporter who stumbles upon a plan for the Japanese to take over the world. I don't know how Hollywood thought making this movie could possibly be good for race relations in America. In any case, the Japanese are the bad guys here. They want to take over, and they kill Wallace Ford, another reporter, who finds out about it. Then, when Jimmy finds out about it, they try to buy him off. I guess they can't try to kill the lead actor until the end of the movie. Jimmy has integrity (the first reporter ever!) and he refuses. He's soon joined by Sylvia Sidney (ridiculously cast as an Asian character), in their quest for truth and justice.
It might sound good, but it's not the best. It doesn't feel good to have a one-dimensional movie about Japanese villains, and Sylvia's casting is just silly. At least Philip Ahn is in the movie, but why couldn't Hollywood just cast an Asian female costar?