Tora! Tora! Tora!
The film retells of the Pearl Harbor attack details everything in the days that led up to that tragic moment in American history as well as the series of American blunders that allowed it to happen.
18 December 1915, The Bronx, New York, USA
1 November 1937, New York, New York, USA
23 August 1907, New York, USA
17 September 1907, Gunma, Japan
19 June 1917, Paducah, Kentucky, USA
7 October 1937, Hokkaido, Japan
14 July 1901, New York City, New York, USA
8 September 1908, Koami-cho, Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan [now Nihonbashi Koami-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo]
28 March 1917, Fukuoka, Japan
October 24, 1911 in California, USA
1 July 1934, Toledo, Ohio, USA
1 June 1925, Enid, Oklahoma, USA
24 August 1923, Dayton, Ohio, USA
November 9, 1932 in Chiba, Japan
24 February 1910, Tenri, Japan
24 May 1911, Curwensville, Pennsylvania, USA
27 December 1917, Mississippi, USA
1 August 1920
March 10, 1928 in Ueno, Tokyo, Japan
18 June 1914, Owatonna, Minnesota, USA
December 8, 1927 in Mason, Texas, USA
8 August 1926, Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
4 August 1913, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
11 March 1927, Tokyo, Japan
1 July 1936, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 October 1914, Griffin, Georgia, USA
22 June 1920, Chicago, Illinois, USA
May 15, 2012
The Japanese sneak attack that plunged the US into WW II is lavishly and fairly accurately, if not enthrallingly, brought to the screen.
June 24, 2006
The climax, in particular, manages to be more than just a shoot-out, with Fleischer's intelligent direction generating a real feeling of chaos and apocalypse.
July 28, 2015
Directors Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda have infused Tora! Tora! Tora! with an excessively dry and deliberate pace that results in an almost interminable first hour...
December 29, 2011
The film looks gorgeous in HD, and remains the best Hollywood treatment of Pearl Harbor.
December 20, 2012
Prior to "Tora!" movies showing the attack were jingoistic propaganda; afterwards, the attack was an excuse to indulge in Hollywood's fascination with American self-loathing.
July 08, 2008
Both overall director Richard Fleischer and his Japanese counterparts do a dull job, and the monotonously low-key tone of scene after scene almost suggests that each was filmed without a sense of ultimate slotting in the finished form.
May 09, 2005
As history, it seems a fairly accurate account of what happened, although it never much bothers its head about why. As film art, it is nothing less than a $25-million irrelevancy.
May 15, 2012
Expensive but ultimately rather empty.
December 15, 2011
Strictly for history buffs only, because it presents the story in the most dry way possible. It's like a History Channel re-enactment with all of the right aircraft carriers and airplanes.
February 24, 2002
It's rare for a feature film to attain the trifecta of entertaining, informing, and educating.
December 20, 2011
an interesting footnote in cinema history... though it's no less propaganda than the flag wavers from the 1940s
October 23, 2004
Tora! Tora! Tora! is one of the deadest, dullest blockbusters ever made.
