Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora! (?????????) is a 1970 film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the series of American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness. The title is the code-words that were used by the Japanese to indicate a complete success of the attack, using a repetition of the Japanese word for tiger. The movie 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.

Related Topics:
1970 - Japan - Attack on Pearl Harbor - Most famous line

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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.

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Akira Kurosawa - 20th Century Fox - Kinji Fukasaku

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The screenplay was written by Ladislas Farago, Larry Forrester, Ryuzo Kikushima, and Hideo Oguni, based on the book by Gordon W. Prange. Charles Wheeler, the cinematographer, was nominated for an Oscar. The film contains second unit and miniature photography, shot by Ray Kellogg. Film score composer was Jerry Goldsmith.

Related Topics:
Book - Charles Wheeler - Oscar - Second unit - Miniature photography - Ray Kellogg - Film score - Composer - Jerry Goldsmith

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The film had an "all-star" cast, including

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• Martin Balsam as Admiral Husband Kimmel, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet
• Soh Yamamura as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief, Combined Fleet
• Joseph Cotten as Secretary of War Henry Stimson
• Tatsuya Mihashi as Commander Minoru Genda, Air Staff, 1st Air Fleet
• E.G. Marshall as Lt. Colonel Rufus S. Bratton, Head of Army Intelligence's Far Eastern section
• James Whitmore as Vice Admiral William Halsey, Commander, Task Force 2
• Wesley Addy as Commander Alwin D. Kramer, ONI Far Eastern section
• Eijiro Tono as Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, Commander-in-Chief, 1st Air Fleet
• Jason Robards as Lt. General Walter Short, Commanding General United States Army in Hawaii
• Leon Ames as Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox
• Edward Andrews as Admiral Harold Rainsford Stark, [[CNO|United States Chief of Naval Operations

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• George Macready as Secretary of State Cordell Hull
• Keith Andes as General George Marshall, Chief of Staff of the United States Army
• Takahiro Tamura as Commander Mitsuo Fuchida, Commander, Air Group
• Robert Karnes as Admiral James Richardson, outgoing Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet
• Meredith 'Tex' Weatherby as Joseph C. Grew, American Ambassador to Japan
• Shogo Shimada as Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Japanese Ambasador to the United States
• Koreya Senda as Prince Fumimaro Konoe, Prime Minister of Japan
• Asao Uchida as General Hideki Tojo, Japanese Minister of War
• Kazuo Kitamura as Yosuke Matsuoka, Japanese Foreign Minister
• Neville Brand as Lieutenant Kaminsky, the duty officer who continually notifies top brass about the impending attack and blows up at his commanding officer when it happens.