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*Tora! Tora! Tora!* is a 1970 war film produced by the United States and Japan. The movie was directed by Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda, with screenplays by Akira Kurosawa and Hideo Oguni. The cast includes Joseph Cotten, Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, and James Whitmore. Jerry Goldsmith composed the score, while Charles F. Wheeler served as director of photography. The narrative is set in Washington, D.C., and Tokyo, focusing on the Attack on Pearl Harbor, aviation, and World War II.
The film was distributed by 20th Century Studios and Netflix. It received the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and was named a Top Ten Film by the National Board of Review. Additionally, it was nominated for Academy Awards in the categories of Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, and Best Sound. The production had a budget of 25,485,000 and generated revenue of 37,150,000.
Filming took place in Honolulu and San Diego. The movie has a runtime of 144 minutes and was released on January 26, 1970. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.5 based on 39,884 votes and a TMDb vote average of 7.152 from 600 votes. The film is categorized as Action, Drama, and History.
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7.2In 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 used 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.
Cast
- Martin Balsam as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel
- So Yamamura as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
- Jason Robards as General Walter C. Short
- Joseph Cotten as Henry L. Stimson
- Tatsuya Mihashi as Commander Minoru Genda
- E.G. Marshall as Colonel Rufus S. Bratton
Themes
- japan
- hawaii
- world war ii
- pearl harbor
- u.s. navy
- pacific war
- soldier
- japanese army
- imperial japan
- 1940s
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Key facts
- Directed by
- American sequences , Richard Fleischer , Japanese sequences , Toshio Masuda , Kinji Fukasaku
- Screenplay by
- American sequences , Larry Forrester, Japanese sequences , Hideo Oguni , Ryūzō Kikushima
- Based on
- Tora! Tora! Tora! , 1969 book, by Gordon W. Prange The Broken Seal , 1967 book, by Ladislas Farago
- Produced by
- Elmo Williams
- Starring
- Martin Balsam So Yamamura Joseph Cotten Tatsuya Mihashi E.G. Marshall James Whitmore Takahiro Tamura Eijirō Tōno Jason Robards
- Cinematography
- American sequences , Charles F. Wheeler , Japanese sequences , Shinsaku Himeda , Masamichi Satoh , Osamu Furuya
- Edited by
- James E. Newcom , Pembroke J. Herring , Inoue Chikaya
- Music by
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Production companies
- Williams-Fleischer Productions, Toei Company
- Distributed by
- 20th Century-Fox (United States), Toei Company (Japan)
- Release dates
- 23 September 1970 ( 1970-09-23 ) (United States) 25 September 1970 ( 1970-09-25 ) (Japan)
- Running time
- 144 minutes
- Countries
- United States, Japan
- Languages
- English, Japanese
- Budget
- $25 million
- Box office
- $37 million (rentals)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- war film
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- World War II
- Director
- Toshio Masuda
- Screenwriter
- Hideo Oguni
- Cast member
- Randall Duk Kim
- Composer
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Producer
- Elmo Williams
- Production company
- 20th Century Studios
- Narrative location
- Tokyo
- Filming location
- San Diego
- Duration
- 145
- FilmAffinity ID
- 240724
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- Commons category
- Tora! Tora! Tora!
- publication date
- 1970-09-23
- film editor
- James E. Newcom
- title
- Tora! Tora! Tora!
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
- production designer
- Richard Day
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- set in environment
- aircraft carrier
- review score
- 46/100
- characters
- Cornelia Fort
- capital cost
- 25000000
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Encyclopedic overview
Tora! Tora! Tora! (Japanese: トラ・トラ・トラ！) is a 1970 epic war film that dramatizes the events leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, from both American and Japanese positions. The film was produced by Elmo Williams and directed by Richard Fleischer , Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku. It features an ensemble cast, including Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, So Yamamura, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takahiro Tamura, Wesley Addy, and Jason Robards. It was both Masuda's and Fukasaku's first English-language film and first international co-production.
The tora of the title, although literally meaning "tiger", is actually a two-syllable codeword that abbreviated the longer phrase totsugeki raigeki 突撃雷撃 ("lightning attack"), used by the invaders to indicate that complete surprise had been achieved.
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