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Tora! Tora! Tora!
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
1970 · Directed by Toshio Masuda · 144 min · War · History · Drama · 17 frames
Tagline
The incredible attack on Pearl Harbor.
Crew
- Screenplay: Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Larry Forrester
- Cinematography: Charles F. Wheeler, Masamichi Satoh, Shinsaku Himeda, Osamu Furuya
- Edited by: Pembroke J. Herring, Shinya Inoue, James E. Newcom
- Music: Jerry Goldsmith
- Produced by: Elmo Williams, Richard Fleischer
Cast
- Martin Balsam as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel
- So Yamamura as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
- Jason Robards as General Walter C. Short
- Joseph Cotten as Henry L. Stimson
- Tatsuya Mihashi as Commander Minoru Genda
- E.G. Marshall as Colonel Rufus S. Bratton
- Takahiro Tamura as Lt. Commander Mitsuo Fuchida
- James Whitmore as Admiral William F. Halsey
- Eijirō Tōno as Admiral Chuici Nagumo
- Wesley Addy as Lt. Commander Alwin D. Kramer
Production
- Country: Japan, United States of America
- Language: English, Japanese
- Studios: 20th Century Fox, Toei Company, Williams-Fleischer Productions
- Budget: $25,485,000
- Box office: $37,150,000
- Themes: japan, hawaii, world war ii, pearl harbor, u.s. navy, pacific war, soldier, japanese army, imperial japan, 1940s
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