Ci-Cl Archivo

por **chuschao** » Lun Nov 27, 2006 8:03 pm

Bzoler en FH

Sangre sobre el sol

Blood on the Sun is a World War II era, anti-Japanese fascism, Film Noir. Made in 1945, Blood on the Sun feeds on the - then - distrust and anger towards the Japanese. Pearl Harbor was still in everyone's mind. Watching it today, it is a history lesson on what our feelings were toward our enemies.

James Cagney stars as an American reporter, Nick Condon. who works at a Tokyo newspaper on the eve of World War II. A fellow American reporter and his wife are murdered for coming upon vital information on Japan's plans for world expansion. Nick soon obtains the same information and finds himself fighting for his life. With the help of a mysterious woman named Iris, Nick attempts to get the information out of the country.

The movie moves along at a great pace and has a decent amount of action. Cagney gets into a few scrapes and even manages a few amateurish judo flips. Thankfully Cagney ends up relying more on street fighting to get by. It's tough guy Cagney at his best. He is well into middle age and appears a bit pudgy, but his trademark screen energy is still there.

The movie is filled with the stereotype of the deceitful, smiling Japanese. Considering that, mere hours before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Japanese diplomats were in Washington to discuss our two countries relationship, not trusting Japan was understandable. To further show that the Japanese were not to be liked, Iris makes the sarcastic statement that; "Japanese women aren't allowed to think. It's against the law."

I have always been a huge Cagney fan and this movie gives him plenty of good action scenes and trademark rapid speech patterns. Sylvia Sidney is also good as the mysterious Iris. She is at first portrayed as a spy for the Japanese but is later revealed to be a Chinese citizen who aids Cagney's mission and falls for him in the process.

The climax, where Cagney sends her off to safety on a boat with the vital documents in her safekeeping while he stays behind to face the enemy, is well-filmed and keeps you on the edge of your seat.

Based on actual events that took place in the late 20's, Blood on the Sun was the second movie produced by William Cagney Productions, the company Cagney set up with his brother after leaving Warner Bros. Cagney took judo lessons to prepare for the role and this is one of his most action-packed and violent movies.

While there is certainly some stereotyping of the Japanese, it should be noted that the military leaders are portrayed as corrupt and not the Japanese people per se.

AVI File Details
========================================
Name.........: Sangre sobre el sol - Blood on the Sun.1945.DVDRip DUAL Eng-Spa.olimiller.avi
Filesize.....: 1,285 MB (or 1,316,786 KB or 1,348,389,306 bytes)
Runtime......: 01:33:41 (140,536 fr)

Video Codec..: XviD
Video Bitrate: 1653 kb/s
FPS..........: 25.000
Frame Size...: 544x400 (1.36:1) [=34:25]

Audio Codec..: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3
Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s (64/ch, stereo) CBR
Sample Rate..: 48000 Hz