Tora! Tora! Tora! [VHS]


	Actor(s):		Martin Balsam Sô Yamamura Jason Robards Joseph Cotten Tatsuya Mihashi
	Sales Rank:		346763

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Actor(s):
Martin Balsam
Sô Yamamura
Jason Robards
Joseph Cotten
Tatsuya Mihashi

Creators:
Akira Kurosawa (Writer)
Gordon W. Prange (Writer)
Hideo Oguni (Writer)
Ladislas Farago (Writer)
Larry Forrester (Writer)

Director(s):
Kinji Fukasaku Richard Fleischer Toshio Masuda

EAN: 5013738101753
Binding: VHS Tape
Format: PAL,
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: G (General Audience)

Amazon.com
"Sir, there's a large formation of planes coming in from the north, 140 miles, 3 degrees east." "Yeah? Don't worry about it." This is just one of the many mishaps chronicled in Tora! Tora! Tora! The epic film shows the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both sides in the historic first American-Japanese coproduction: American director Richard Fleischer oversaw the complicated production (the Japanese sequences were directed by Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku, after Akira Kurosawa withdrew from the film), wrestling a sprawling story with dozens of characters into a manageable, fairly easy-to-follow film. The first half maps out the collapse of diplomacy between the nations and the military blunders that left naval and air forces sitting ducks for the impending attack, while the second half is an amazing re-creation of the devastating battle. While Tora! Tora! Tora! lacks the strong central characters that anchor the best war movies, the real star of the film is the climactic 30-minute battle, a massive feat of cinematic engineering that expertly conveys the surprise, the chaos, and the immense destruction of the only attack by a foreign power on American soil since the Revolutionary war. The special effects won a well-deserved Oscar, but the film was shut out of every other category by, ironically, the other epic war picture of the year, Patton. --Sean Axmaker

Running time: 144 minutes
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: Japanese (Original Language)