Blood on the Sun is a 1945 American war film directed by Frank Lloyd and 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 & White (Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields) film in 1945.

Plot
An American reporter is framed under false charges after exposing the Japanese government’s secret plans for global dominion. Eventually, he is forced to plot a unique way to evade the state’s ire.