Originally deemed a boring movie and a box-office flop, today it's probably the most fact-based telling of the plot behind the Pearl Harbor attacks, shown from both the Japanese and American sides.
Description:The path to war in December 1941 is retold from the appointment of Isoroku Yamamoto to command the Imperial Japanese Navy on through the execution of his most ambitious and audacious plan - an attack by carrier aircraft on the US Navy station at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii. As the Japanese First Air Fleet sorties to Hawaii, diplomatic effThe path to war in December 1941 is retold from the appointment of Isoroku Yamamoto to command the Imperial Japanese Navy on through the execution of his most ambitious and audacious plan - an attack by carrier aircraft on the US Navy station at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii. As the Japanese First Air Fleet sorties to Hawaii, diplomatic efforts by both nations continue, but intercepts of Japanese diplomatic messages show Japan is practicing deception and planning aggression - but there is no clue as to where Japan will strike.... (more)(less)
Release date : 23 September 1970 UPC: 086162128097
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Plot: A dramatization of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the series of American blunders that allowed it to happen.
Genre: Action | War | Drama
Director: Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku
Stars: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Joseph Cotten
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"Fred Haise (one of the Astronauts from Apollo 13) who was a stunt pilot in this film, got in a really bad BT 13 crash which burned two-thirds of his body and hospitalized him for 3 months."
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Watched March 2nd - TCM - Rewatch
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." - Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Tora! Tora! Tora! remains the best, most complete and most detailed movie I have seen about the events surrounding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. I like that it tells the story from both Japan and America's point of view and that the Japanese actors speak Japanese, which lends authenticity to the film. Seeing this movie back to back "
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“Originally deemed a boring movie and a box-office flop, today it's probably the most fact-based telling of the plot behind the Pearl Harbor attacks, shown from both the Japanese and American sides.” read more