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.
1928, Cape Town, South Africa
13 July 1940, Seattle, Washington, USA
4 August 1913, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
16 October 1912, San Antonio, Texas, USA
7 October 1937, Hokkaido, Japan
13 December 1905, Kanagawa, Japan
5 June 1905, Cecilia, Kentucky, USA
11 March 1927, Tokyo, Japan
29 August 1899, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
13 September 1924, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
18 December 1915, The Bronx, New York, USA
3 June 1940, Oakland, California, USA
24 September 1943
20 November 1917, Hokkaido, Japan
15 January 1927, Los Angeles, California, USA
15 July 1910, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
27 December 1917, Mississippi, USA
14 January 1926, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
1 October 1921, White Plains, New York, USA
23 October 1939, USA
6 November 1917, Los Angeles County, California, USA
14 July 1901, New York City, New York, USA
December 8, 1927 in Mason, Texas, USA
16 September 1908, Paterson, New Jersey, USA
22 September 1903, New York City, New York, USA
16 November 1932, Los Angeles County, California, USA
13 October 1914, New York City, New York, USA
8 September 1908, Koami-cho, Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan [now Nihonbashi Koami-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo]
December 29, 2011
The film looks gorgeous in HD, and remains the best Hollywood treatment of Pearl Harbor.
December 20, 2011
an interesting footnote in cinema history... though it's no less propaganda than the flag wavers from the 1940s
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.
May 15, 2012
Expensive but ultimately rather empty.
October 23, 2004
Tora! Tora! Tora! is one of the deadest, dullest blockbusters ever made.
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.
February 24, 2002
It's rare for a feature film to attain the trifecta of entertaining, informing, and educating.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
