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Tora! Tora! Tora!
The film retells of the Pearl Harbor attack details everything in the days that led up to that tragic moment in American history as well as the series of American blunders that allowed it to happen.
10 February 1916, Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA
1 July 1934, Toledo, Ohio, USA
September 18, 1919 in Nahari, Kochi, Japan
31 August 1928, Kyoto City, Japan
8 August 1926, Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
24 September 1943
24 May 1911, Curwensville, Pennsylvania, USA
February 8, 1924 in Tokyo, Japan
October 29, 1921 in Toledo, Ohio, USA
17 September 1907, Gunma, Japan
March 31, 1918 in Malden, Massachusetts, USA
26 July 1901, New York City, New York, USA
December 20, 2012
Prior to "Tora!" movies showing the attack were jingoistic propaganda; afterwards, the attack was an excuse to indulge in Hollywood's fascination with American self-loathing.May 15, 2012
The Japanese sneak attack that plunged the US into WW II is lavishly and fairly accurately, if not enthrallingly, brought to the screen.May 09, 2005
As history, it seems a fairly accurate account of what happened, although it never much bothers its head about why. As film art, it is nothing less than a $25-million irrelevancy.December 20, 2011
an interesting footnote in cinema history... though it's no less propaganda than the flag wavers from the 1940sFebruary 24, 2002
It's rare for a feature film to attain the trifecta of entertaining, informing, and educating.June 24, 2006
The climax, in particular, manages to be more than just a shoot-out, with Fleischer's intelligent direction generating a real feeling of chaos and apocalypse.July 28, 2015
Directors Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda have infused Tora! Tora! Tora! with an excessively dry and deliberate pace that results in an almost interminable first hour...October 23, 2004
Tora! Tora! Tora! is one of the deadest, dullest blockbusters ever made.May 15, 2012
Expensive but ultimately rather empty.December 15, 2011
Strictly for history buffs only, because it presents the story in the most dry way possible. It's like a History Channel re-enactment with all of the right aircraft carriers and airplanes.July 08, 2008
Both overall director Richard Fleischer and his Japanese counterparts do a dull job, and the monotonously low-key tone of scene after scene almost suggests that each was filmed without a sense of ultimate slotting in the finished form.December 29, 2011
The film looks gorgeous in HD, and remains the best Hollywood treatment of Pearl Harbor.