Tora! Tora! Tora!

'Tora! Tora! Tora! (Japanese: 'トラ・トラ・トラ！) is a 1970 epic war film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The film was produced by Elmo Williams and directed by Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku, and stars an ensemble cast including Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, So Yamamura, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takahiro Tamura, Wesley Addy, and Jason Robards.

Plot
In late-1941, as the relations between the US and Japan are strained due to the ban on raw materials, the top officers from Japan decide to start a war against the US.

Good Qualities

 * 1) It is pretty much historically accurate of what Pearl Harbor happened in 1941, especially the attack of Pearl Harbor, though not as much. Not only that, but It is a dramatic blockbuster and a decent story about the tragic events of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941.
 * 2) Amazing direction, especially from one American director, Richard Fleischer, and as well as the two Japanese directors, Toshio Masuda, and Kinji Fukasaku.
 * 3) There are exciting action scenes.
 * 4) The setting of the 1940's locations of Tokyo, Washington D.C., and Pearl Harbor are amazing and well made.
 * 5) Stays faithful on the two novels, Tora! Tora! Tora! and The Broken Seal.
 * 6) Great cinematography.
 * 7) Many actors gave great performances as Martin Balsam as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, Joseph Cotten as Secretary Henry Stimson, So Yamamura as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, and other Japanese actors as Japanese soldiers.
 * 8) The battle sequences are pretty realistic.
 * 9) Fantastic soundtrack that was composed by Jerry Goldsmith.

Bad Qualties

 * 1) There is some corny acting in many scenes throughout the movie.
 * 2) The film is rather violent for a G-rated film, especially the scenes where a group of soldiers get killed onscreen, which is way too much for a G-rated film.
 * 3) There are some historical inaccuracies, such as a plane crashing hanger which was an amalgamation of three events during the real attack.
 * 4) The film's pacing is rather slow, considering the fact that the film was only 145 minutes long with a lot of filler.

Reception
The film received mixed reviews from critics, however, the film received positive reviews from audiences alike. The film holds a 55% rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 29 critical reviews. The site's consensus states: "Tora! Tora! Tora! is scrupulously accurate and lays out of the tragedy of Pearl Harbor with intricate detail, but the film's clinical approach to the sound and fury signifies little feeling.", while it has a 81% audience score on the same site. Metacritic, has a 48/100 rating meaning "Mixed or average reviews", while it has a 7.6/10 user score rating on the same site. On IMDb, it has a 7.5/10 rating.

Along with The Battle of Britain (1969), The Longest Day (1962), and Patton (1970), it was seen at the time as one of the four most representative films of World War II. This film has a greater focus on realism than the others and far less Hollywood-style storytelling.

At the time of its initial release, the film was thought to be a box office disappointment in North America, but was a huge success in Japan.

Trivia

 * The tora of the title is the two-syllable Japanese codeword used to indicate that complete surprise had been achieved. Japanese being a language with many homophones, it is a coincidence that tora also means "tiger" (虎).
 * Footage from this film was also used in Pearl (1978), a television miniseries about the Pearl Harbor attack. Some of the Pearl Harbor footage also was used in depicting the Japanese air attacks on Midway on June 4, 1942 in Midway (1976), and on Port Darwin on February 19, 1942 in Australia (2008).
 * The Japanese section of the film was originally to be directed by Akira Kurosawa.

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