Eagle of the Pacific

Eagle of the Pacific
Original Japanese movie poster
Directed by	Ishirō Honda
Produced by	Tomoyuki Tanaka Sojiro Motoki
Written by	Shinobu Hashimoto
Starring	Denjirō Ōkōchi
Music by	Yūji Koseki
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	October 21, 1953 (Japan)
Running time	119 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Eagle of the Pacific (太平洋の鷲, Taiheiyo no washi^?) a.k.a. Operation Kamikaze is a 1953 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Ishirō Honda. The film dramatizes the start of Japan's military action in World War II, with an emphasis on the role of Isoroku Yamamoto.

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Toho intended Eagle of the Pacific to be an ambitious, Hollywood-style film. The studio used storyboarding to plan the visual effects sequences, a technique they would repeat on Godzilla.

One scene required a Zero fighter plane and its pilot to catch fire. The pilot was played by a stuntman named Haruo Nakajima, who Honda later cast as Godzilla.

Eagle in the Pacific grossed 163 million yen, the third highest total for a Japanese film in 1953.

The film was released on DVD in Japan in 2005.