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Release Date: 1970 Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi, Jason Robards, So Yamamura, E. G. Marshall, Martin Balsam, Wesley Addy, Richard Anderson, James Whitmore, Koreya Senda, Eijirô Tono, Takahiro Tamura, Joseph Cotten
Categories: Movies, Japanese Movies, Historical fiction, Action, Action/Adventure, War film, Airplanes and airports Tora! Tora! Tora! is a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and stars an ensemble cast, including Sō Yamamura, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, and Jason Robards. The film is famous for Isoroku Yamamoto's quote likening the attacks to "awakening a sleeping giant", although it may have been apocryphal. The title is the Japanese code-word used to indicate that complete surprise was achieved. It literally means "Tiger, tiger, tiger".
A change-of-command ceremony aboard the Japanese battleship Nagato,... MORE
Tora! Tora! Tora! is a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and stars an ensemble cast, including Sō Yamamura, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, and Jason Robards. The film is famous for Isoroku Yamamoto's quote likening the attacks to "awakening a sleeping giant", although it may have been apocryphal. The title is the Japanese code-word used to indicate that complete surprise was achieved. It literally means "Tiger, tiger, tiger".
A change-of-command ceremony aboard the Japanese battleship Nagato, flagship for the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Sō Yamamura) takes place in 1940. He takes command from Zengo Yoshida (Junya Usami). The two discuss America's embargo that starves Japan of raw materials. While both agree that a war with the United States would be a complete disaster, army hotheads and politicians push through an alliance with Germany and start planning for war. With the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, regarded as a "knife to the throat of Japan", Yamamoto orders the planning of a preemptive strike, believing Japan's only hope is LESS
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