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23 September 1970 (USA) moreTagline:
The incredible attack on Pearl Harbor. morePlot:
A dramatization of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the series of American blunders that allowed it to happen. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
Won Oscar. Another 7 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(5 articles)
Veteran Director Richard Fleischer Dead at 89 (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 27 March 2006)
Filmmaker Richard Fleischer Dies
(From WENN. 27 March 2006)
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If you really want to know what happened... more (126 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Martin Balsam | ... | Admiral Kimmel |
| Sô Yamamura | ... | Admiral Yamamoto (as Soh Yamamura) |
| Joseph Cotten | ... | Henry Stimson |
| Tatsuya Mihashi | ... | Commander Genda |
 | E.G. Marshall | ... | Lt. Colonel Bratton |
| James Whitmore | ... | Admiral Halsey |
| Takahiro Tamura | ... | Lt. Commander Fuchida |
| Eijirô Tôno | ... | Admiral Nagumo (as Eijiro Tono) |
 | Jason Robards | ... | General Short |
| Wesley Addy | ... | Lt. Commander Kramer |
| Shogo Shimada | ... | Ambassador Nomura |
| Frank Aletter | ... | Lt. Commander Thomas |
| Koreya Senda | ... | Prince Konoye |
| Leon Ames | ... | Frank Knox |
| Junya Usami | ... | Admiral Yoshida |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
144 minColor:
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2.20 : 1 moreCertification:
Iceland:12 | South Korea:12 | New Zealand:PG | Brazil:Livre | Australia:G (DVD rating) | Australia:PG (cable rating) | Finland:K-12 | Norway:16 (1972) | Singapore:PG | Sweden:15 | Taiwan:GP | UK:U | USA:G | West Germany:16 (f)Filming Locations:
20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA moreFun Stuff
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The USS Yorktown (CVS-10) was disguised as the Japanese carrier Kaga to film scenes of aircraft taking off and landing. It was fitted with a false bow to disguise the catapults. Although it appears as though steam is leaking from the bow, Japanese carriers actually used steam to indicate wind speed and direction over the bow. The steam trail was lined up with the painted white lines on the bow. It was unofficially named "USS Kaga" for the duration of filming. The USS Enterprise seen entering Pearl Harbor at the end of the movie is actually the USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31). moreGoofs:
Anachronisms: When Col. Bratton and Lt. Cmdr. Kramer walk into the Navy cryptography workroom, the Marine sentry at the door is wearing "modified blues" - a khaki shirt and tie with the USMC dress-blue uniform's red-striped blue trousers. The Marine Corps didn't adopt this uniform until after World War II. moreQuotes:
Cordell Hull: In all my fifty years of public service, I have never seen a document so crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions, on a scale so huge that I never imagined until today that any government on this planet was capable of uttering them.Ambassador Nomura: [pleading] Mr. Hull...
Cordell Hull: [wearily] Go!
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...see this film.
Whether you want to waste time seeing Brucheimer and Bay's self-indulgently long PEARL HARBOR with its totally extraneous fictional romance -- that's up to you. But whether you see it or not, the real history of the human stupidity on both sides of the Pacific that created the attack is clearly portrayed in TORA! TORA! TORA!
The new DVD edition has insightful commentary by the director plus a documentary about the attack. This film is tensely paced and displays and excellent cast. The Jerry Goldsmith score is kept to a minimum but is very effective. The special FX for the attack are all the more impressive considering they were done before the advent of computer generated FX such as those in PEARL HARBOR -- and they equal those of PEARL HARBOR.
If you want to know the real story, see this film and then also check out the companion stories in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, DESTINATION TOKYO, and THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO.