Tora! Tora! Tora!
The incredible attack on Pearl Harbor.
7.2 / 10
144 minutes
1970-01-26
English
JP
Actors :
Martin Balsam, Sō Yamamura, Jason Robards, Joseph Cotten, Tatsuya Mihashi, E.G. Marshall, Takahiro Tamura, James Whitmore, Eijirō Tōno, Wesley Addy, Shōgo Shimada, Frank Aletter, Koreya Senda, Leon Ames, Jun Usami
Description
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 use 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.
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Reviews
lwpcolonel
6/23/2021, 3:58:04 PM
First off, this is a very good historical fictionalization of an epic event. Many parts are very accurate whereas others are more or less. This is after all a Hollywood movie, NOT a documentary such as "The World At War", so we can't be too critical about perfect accuracy. Originally it was supposed to be directed by two directors, 1 for the American story line, and Akira Kurosawa, for the Japane...
Per Gunnar Jonsson
5/16/2024, 3:21:16 PM
I remember viewing this film as a kid shortly after it came out in Sweden. At that time I was not impressed. I was expecting an action filled war movie and what I got was a boring movie where the good guys got beaten up at the end. I do not think I even new anything about the real events in Pearl Harbor at the time. Naturally I view this movie in a somewhat different light and now and when re-wat...