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The movie Tora! Tora! Tora! (トラ・トラ・トラ), released in
1970, is a dramatization of the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor and the series of American blunders that aggravated its
effectiveness. It was critically acclaimed for its vivid action scenes as
well as its almost documentary accuracy. Its
most famous line, however, though widely assumed to be a quotation,
transpired to be fictitious.
The film was created in two separate productions, one based in the
United States, directed by Richard Fleischer, and one based in Japan. The
Japanese side of the production was initially directed by
Akira Kurosawa, but after two years of work with no useful results,
20th Century Fox turned the project over to
Kinji Fukasaku who completed it.
The screenplay was written by Ladislas Farago, Larry Forrester, Ryuzo
Kikushima, and Hideo Oguni, based on the
book by Gordon W. Prange. The film contains excellent
second unit and
miniature photography, shot by
Ray Kellogg.
The film had an "all-star" cast, including
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Martin Balsam as Admiral
Husband Kimmel, Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet
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Soh Yamamura as Admiral
Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander Combined Japanese Fleet
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Joseph Cotten as Secretary of War
Henry Stimson
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Tatsuya Mihashi as Commander
Minoru Genda, Air Staff 1st Fleet
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Edward G. Marshall as Colonel
Rufus Bratton, Head of Army Intelligence
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James Whitmore as Vice Admiral
William Halsey, Commander Task Force 2
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Eijiro Tono as Vice Admiral
Chuichi Nagumo, Commander Carrier Force
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Jason Robards as Lt. General
Walter Short, Commanding General United States Army
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