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Tora! Tora! Tora! is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Fleischer released in USA on 23 september 1970 with Martin Balsam
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 23 september 1970
Length 2h24
OriginUSA
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Rating74%
Tora! Tora! Tora! (Japanese: トラ・トラ・トラ) is a 1970 American–Japanese war film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer 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, [tòɽá]) literally means "tiger", but in this case was an acronym for totsugeki raigeki (突撃雷撃, "lightning attack").
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In 1941, the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Sō Yamamura) and his predecessor, Zengo Yoshida (Junya Usami), discuss America's embargo that starves Japan of raw materials. While both agree that a war with the United States would be a complete disaster, army hotheads and politicians push through an alliance with Germany and start planning for war. With the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto orders the planning of a preventive strike, believing Japan's only hope is to annihilate the American Pacific fleet at the outset of hostilities.Actors
Martin Balsam
(Admiral Husband E. Kimmel)
Joseph Cotten
(Henry L. Stimson, U.S. Secretary of War)
Sō Yamamura
(Vice-Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto)
E. G. Marshall
(Lt. Colonel Rufus S. Bratton)
James Whitmore
(Vice Admiral William F. 'Bull' Halsey Jr.)
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