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Release Date: 1970

Cast: E. G. Marshall, Martin Balsam, Richard Anderson, Joseph Cotten, Wesley Addy, Jason Robards, Tatsuya Mihashi, So Yamamura, Eijirô Tono, James Whitmore, Koreya Senda, Takahiro Tamura

Categories: Movies, Airplanes And Airports, War Film, Action/Adventure, Historical Film, Drama Film, Action

Tora! Tora! Tora! is a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, to the extent these facts were known at the time of production. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and stars an ensemble cast, including Sō Yamamura, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, and Jason Robards who, serving in the Navy, witnessed the aftermath of the attack firsthand. The commanders in Hawaii, General Short and Admiral Kimmel, though scapegoated for decades, are portrayed as taking defensive measures for the apparent threats, including relocation of the fighter aircraft... MORE

Tora! Tora! Tora! is a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, to the extent these facts were known at the time of production. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and stars an ensemble cast, including Sō Yamamura, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, and Jason Robards who, serving in the Navy, witnessed the aftermath of the attack firsthand. The commanders in Hawaii, General Short and Admiral Kimmel, though scapegoated for decades, are portrayed as taking defensive measures for the apparent threats, including relocation of the fighter aircraft at Pearl Harbor to the middle of the base, in response to fears of sabotage from local Japanese insurgents. They received limited warning of the increasing risk of aerial attack, which was better understood in Washington than in Honolulu. 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 made up of the code-words that were used by the Japanese to indicate that complete surprise was achieved and is translated in the Japanese as "tiger", hence making the code for achieved surprise "Tiger, tiger, LESS