Blood on the Sun
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- 1945
- 98 min
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But gentlemen... I know nothing
about this article being printed...
I was out of town.
The 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 had to fight
in the Russo-Japanese War.
Gentlemen, you know the Chronicle
has supported the government for 25 years.
Every government.
and the Japanese people...
...has caused great disturbance.
You must know the penalty
for disregarding censorship.
If my managing editor has violated
any of the regulations...
...I'll fire him!
Nick!
Nick Condon!
Somebody dig up Nick Condon!
He's out... something important.
Said he wasn't to be disturbed.
I don't care if he's
interviewing the emperor...
Get him here right away!
- Get him on the phone, Kinshan.
- OK, Mr Sprague.
But he's not going to like it.
Get him anyway.
Hello, Oshima!
What's on your mind?
There is a matter to discuss...
If you please.
Shoot!
It is an official matter
of great importance.
Great!...Come on in...
We'll talk it over.
- Nick... will you please get...
- Oh... alright... alright!
Hand me that towel, will you.
Lies! Lies!
It is all one big lie!
Every word is untrue.
Now, just a minute...
You must disclose source
of your information.
Police must know name
of this traitor.
Alright... that's fair enough...
You have a right to know.
The name of the traitor
is the American press.
That article appeared
in 3 New York newspapers.
Alright... check with your consul
in New York.
Very unfortunate... when an
American newspaper prints slander...
Oh, I agree... I agree!
If there's anything I hate...
...it's to give anyone a poor impression
of Japanese friendship.
Ah... thank you!
Thank you.
You can't do this to me, Nick.
My blood pressure won't stand it.
Supposing they shut me down?
When I came here 2 years ago
and took over this rag...
It was on one condition...
And I run it!
I know Nick... but you can't...
Your circulation has doubled.
Advertising has gone up 500%...
And you're making more money
than you ever made in your life.
You're not doing so badly yourself.
You're making 5 times the money
you made in Shanghai.
Tired of the deal?
Don't think I don't appreciate
what you did for The Chronicle.
But printing things like that...
That's what newspapers are for...
That's what people buy.
Not just Japanese propaganda handouts.
This was just a rumor!
And thousands of American businessmen have
a right to know about rumors like that.
I know... I know... but, Nick...
Lots of Japs read English, too.
There was more to that
than just a rumor.
When those 2 birds hear about it...
I'll have Ollie Miller look into it.
"Look into it"?...
We've got to get out of it!
You're going to write the retraction.
I'll write a retraction
when they prove the story is false.
Nick... are you sure that piece
was in the New York papers?
The Japs would have caught it on the wires,
and censored it.
New Yorkers read it yesterday.
Yesterday? Then how
could you have read it?
Read it? I wrote it.
Nick!...
Nick... for the love of Mike...
Hiya Nick... thought you'd be in jail
by this time.
Somebody's going to have to slit
your throat to save his face.
Aren't you a little early with that stuff?
Oh no... it just seems early.
I hear the police have collected
all The Chronicles from the newsstands.
Well I hope you boys
got YOUR copies.
You're welcome to cable
any part of it you want.
No thanks, I want to stay in Tokyo...
I just signed a new lease.
Anybody here seen Ollie... Ollie Miller?
No... not yet.
When Ollie Miller's not at this bar...
he must be sick.
- See you later.
- Sure.
Oh, there you are, Nick...
Meet Joe Cassell...
He just pulled in from Shanghai.
- Hello...
- Glad to know you.
You gonna sit down?
- Have a drink?
- Scotch and soda
3 Scotch and sodas.
Joe Cassell... Joe Cassell...?
Covered the criminal courts
for the old "Tele" of New York...
Then went to Russia, then Peking...
Then I lost track.
There's fame for you, Cas!
No... that's a good memory.
Want a job?
Going home.
I was at the Foreign Office this morning...
buzzing like hornets.
It was very rizzy.
Yeah... Breaks the monotony.
Where'd you did it up?
A little here... a little there.
Of course, there's not a grain
of truth in it... You know that.
I don't know anything, do YOU?
Quite a bit.
Our Chinese cousins are trying desperately
Against Japan.
What for?
To take intention off
their own internal disorder.
Believe me...
"disorder" is a clean name for it.
I've just spent 4 years there...
I know.
I lived there 6 years, myself.
4 was enough for me...
Not that I haven't a tremendous admiration
for the Chinese people.
I see...
"Some of my best friends
are Chinese"...eh?!
Well!...At last!
Hiya fellas... Hiya Begana!
Hey Jack... did you get a load of that
front page of Nick's, this morning...
Dynamite!...eh?
Hey... how about a little drink...
Set 'em up... on me!
YOU buying?!
As many as you can handle.
- I'll have a double Scotch.
- Bourbon, double.
How about you, Begana?
I'll have a little soda.
You know what I want.
But Mr Condon...
China, throughout the centuries...
Excuse please... Mr Miller is here.
Yessir!...I'm quittin'!
What? Again?
Keep the change!
2 tickets for home on the first boat
I could get... Leaving tonight.
Where did you get the dough?
New invention.
Secret machines... press buttons...
Out comes fives... tens... hundreds!
Well in that case,
how about the 2 you owe me?
A pleasure... a pleasure!
And here's the 10
that you wouldn't loan me, stinker!
Buy a round of drinks.
Excuse me,
we'll continue this...
Ollie just came in...
I'll see you later.
So long, Nick.
Yessir, I'm quittin' this godforsaken
land... What has it got?
Cherry blossoms... but no cherries.
are those?
I'll probably settle down in Connecticut...
and write a book.
Yes, we'll all write a book, though.
Hiya Nick boy...!
A fine little welcome for you all over...
200!
...and 20... a debt of long standing.
Great honor to pay!
You must have been trading
in Shanghai silver!
Johnson's just gonna buy us a drink!
Where'd you get the money?
I came into it.
Come on... make sense...
What's up?
I may well take offense
at the scepticism of your tone.
But I prefer to be generous
and remember you as my friend...
...and former employer.
That I attribute to your bitter jealousy
of my good fortune.
FORMER employer?
I'm leaving... tonight.
Me and Edith... on the "Nagata Maru".
Where did you get that money?
Nick... take a tip from me...
Come back to the States.
than the inside of Fujiyama...
Get out!...There was blood
on the street this morning.
It'll be flowing like a river,
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