Tora! Tora! Tora!
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Original movie poster
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| Directed by |
Richard Fleischer Toshio Masuda Kinji Fukasaku |
| Produced by |
Elmo Williams Richard Fleischer |
| Screenplay by | Larry Forrester Hideo Oguni Ryūzō Kikushima Uncredited: Akira Kurosawa |
| Based on |
Tora! Tora! Tora! 1969 book by Gordon W. Prange and The Broken Seal by Ladislas Farago |
| Starring |
Martin Balsam Sō Yamamura Joseph Cotten Tatsuya Mihashi E. G. Marshall James Whitmore Takahiro Tamura Eijirō Tōno Jason Robards |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography |
Charles F. Wheeler Shinsaku Himeda Masamichi Satoh Osamu Furuya |
| Edited by |
James E. Newcom Pembroke J. Herring Inoue Chikaya |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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144 minutes |
| Country | Japan United States |
| Language | English Japanese |
| Budget | $25.5 million |
| Box office | $29.5 million (domestic) |
Tora! Tora! Tora! (Japanese: トラ・トラ・トラ) is a 1970 Japanese-American historical war film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku and stars an ensemble cast, including Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Sō Yamamura, E. G. Marshall, James Whitmore and Jason Robards.
The title is the Japanese codeword used to indicate that complete surprise had been achieved. Tora (虎, pronounced [tora]) literally means "tiger", but in this case was an acronym for totsugeki raigeki (突撃雷撃, "lightning attack").
In August 1939, a trade embargo imposed by the United States is depriving a belligerent Japan of raw materials. Influential army figures and politicians push through an alliance with Germany and Italy in September 1940 and make preparations for war. The newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto reluctantly orders the planning of a preemptive strike on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, believing that Japan's best hope of achieving control of the Pacific Ocean is to annihilate the fleet at the outset of hostilities. Air Staff Officer Minoru Genda is chosen to mastermind the operation while his old Naval Academy classmate Mitsuo Fuchida is selected to lead the attack.
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