Tora! Tora! Tora!
by Kinji Fukasaku, Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda
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Actor: Jason Robards, Joseph Cotten, Martin Balsam, S? Yamamura, Tatsuya MihashiDirector: Kinji Fukasaku, Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda
Writer: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Gordon W. Prange
Writer: Hideo Oguni
Writer: Ladislas Farago
Writer: Larry Forrester
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, THX, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 144 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-05-15
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Tora! Tora! Tora!
DVD Review: still waiting
Summary: 1 Stars
Ordered this DVD with "battle of Britain"(see review), haven't rec'd it yet... am I to accept that there is no way to make this good? I would never purchase from this person again.. DVD Review: Tora, Tora, Tora
Summary: 5 Stars
If you enjoy history and action you will find this movie enteresting. Close to the true factsDVD Review: Tora!
Summary: 5 Stars
The new Pearl Harbour movie uses the events as a backdrop for dull characters involved in a trite love affair. Tora! Tora! Tora! is the definitive movie on the subject. If you want a real war movie, this is the real deal.DVD Review: Finally, a WWII movie that's "less" biased than the rest
Summary: 5 Stars
Considering this movie was made in 1970, it's impressive how they managed to do it without using modern computer software. The unbiased narrative and historical value is good enough and we finally get to see a why Japan had a logical reason to attack and to do it when they did.
If you're looking for insane action, ultra cool effects, and hollywood flare, then watch the newer Pearl Harbor with Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnet. That movie rocked as an entertainment piece, but if you're looking for a less biased view of the events that enfolded in on Pearl Harbor, Tora Tora Tora is the movie to watch.
For making and releasing this movie without the help of modern technology, and specially during the vietnam war when such a movie would be considered highly unpatriotic, I give this movie 5*
DVD Review: Tora Tora Tora
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is now nearly forty years old, but it remains the standard for depicting Japan's attack on the United States fleet based in Pearl Harbor. Unlike other films, Tora, Tora, Tora sticks to its main point throughout its run time. The film is critical of the United States' commanders who disregarded evident warning signs of the impending attack and shows also how difficult is was for brass in Washington, thousands of miles away, to relay their concerns to the fleet in Hawaii.
Honolulu in 1941 was a sleepy outpost and not the modern tourist center it is today. As a result, the military base was the biggest show in town. This was America's most important base in the Pacific, but too many people failed to prvide it the security needed for such an imporant base. Japan was able to position its fleet within striking distance without detection as no American naval patrols were assigned to circle the islands looking for potential threats. Radar operators picked up the attacking planes but their warnings were ignored by their superiors.
Tora, Tora, Tora admits the flaws not only in the American defenses, but also in the flaws of Japan's attack plans. Though the attack on Pearl harbor was more or less a "surprise," it did not achieve the immobilization of the American aircraft carriers. It also did not deliver the knockout blow Japan anticipated. Isolationists in America, including many congressmen, would not allow the country to fully prepare for war and Japan banked on this anti0war sentiment to carry the day for their plans. Unfortunately for Japan, they did awaken the sleeping giant that Admiral Yamamoto pondered at the film's end.
This film is well directed and has an allstar cast. The attack scenes are very well done and even the more recent film "Pearl Harbor" cannot really do more to show the destruction of much of the fleet within the harbor. The acting is done well by all the characters and the film moves at a pace that is both informative and to the point. It will take quite an effort to knock this movie off of its lead rank as the definitive Hollywood depiction of the attack of December 7, 1941.
Description of Tora! Tora! Tora!
"Tora! Tora! Tora!" is the Japanese signal to attack - and the movie meticulously recreates the attack on Pearl Harbor and the events leading up to it. Opening scenes contrast the American and Japanese positions. Japanese imperialists decide to stage the attack. Top U.S. brass ignore it's possibility. Intercepted Japanese messages warn of it - but never reach F.D.R.'s desk. Radar warnings are disregarded. Even the entrapment of a Japanese submarine in Pearl Harbor before the attack goes unreported. Ultimately the Day of Infamy arrives - in the most spectacular, gut-wrenching cavalcade of action-packed footage ever. You'll see moments of unsurpassed spectacle and heroism: U.S. fighters trying to take off and being hit as they taxi; men blasted from the decks of torpedoed ships while trying to rescue buddies; savage aerial dogfights pitting lone American fliers against squadrons of Imperial war planes. It's the most dazzling recreation of America's darkest day - and some of her finest hours."Sir, there's a large formation of planes coming in from the north, 140 miles, 3 degrees east." "Yeah? Don't worry about it." This is just one of the many mishaps chronicled in Tora! Tora! Tora! The epic film shows the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both sides in the historic first American-Japanese coproduction: American director Richard Fleischer oversaw the complicated production (the Japanese sequences were directed by Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku, after Akira Kurosawa withdrew from the film), wrestling a sprawling story with dozens of characters into a manageable, fairly easy-to-follow film. The first half maps out the collapse of diplomacy between the nations and the military blunders that left naval and air forces sitting ducks for the impending attack, while the second half is an amazing re-creation of the devastating battle. While Tora! Tora! Tora! lacks the strong central characters that anchor the best war movies, the real star of the film is the climactic 30-minute battle, a massive feat of cinematic engineering that expertly conveys the surprise, the chaos, and the immense destruction of the only attack by a foreign power on American soil since the Revolutionary War. The special effects won a well-deserved Oscar, but the film was shut out of every other category by, ironically, the other epic war picture of the year, Patton. --Sean Axmaker
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