Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Martin Balsam
Admiral Husband E. Kimmel
Sō Yamamura
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Jason Robards
General Walter C. Short
Joseph Cotten
Henry L. Stimson
Tatsuya Mihashi
Commander Minoru Genda
E.G. Marshall
Colonel Rufus S. Bratton
Takahiro Tamura
Lt. Commander Fuchida
James Whitmore
Admiral William F. Halsey
Eijirō Tōno
Admiral Chuici Nagumo
Wesley Addy
Lt. Commander Alvin D. Kramer
Shōgo Shimada
Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura
Richard Fleischer
Director
Frank Aletter
Lt. Commander Francis J. Thomas - USS Nevada
Koreya Senda
Prime Minister Prince Fumimaro Konoye
Kinji Fukasaku
Director
Toshio Masuda
Director
Leon Ames
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox
Larry Forrester
Writer
Jun Usami
Admiral Zengo Yoshida
Richard Anderson
Captain John B. Earle
Hideo Oguni
Writer
Kazuo Kitamura
Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka
Ryūzō Kikushima
Writer
Gordon W. Prange
Writer
Keith Andes
General George C. Marshall
Elmo Williams
Producer
Susumu Fujita
Rear Adm. Tamon Yamaguchi
Jerry Goldsmith
Composer
Edward Andrews
Admiral Harold R. Stark
Bontarō Miake
Adm. Koshiro Oikawa
Pembroke J. Herring
Editor
Neville Brand
Lieutenant Harold Kaminsky
Shinya Inoue
Editor
James E. Newcom
Editor
Ichirō Ryūzaki
Rear Adm. Ryunosuke Kusaka
Leora Dana
Mrs. Kramer
Asao Uchida
General Hideki Tojo
George Macready
Cordell Hull
Norman Alden
Major Truman Landon
Kazuko Ichikawa
Geisha in Kagoshima
Walter Brooke
Captain Theodore Wilkinson
Hank Jones
Davey - Student Pilot in Biplane
Rick Cooper
Lieutenant George Welch
Karl Lukas
Capt. Harold C. Train - USS California
June Dayton
Miss Ray Cave
Ron Masak
Lt. Laurence Ruff - USS Nevada
Jeff Donnell
Cornelia
Shunichi Nakamura
Kameto Kurojima
Richard Erdman
Colonel Edward F. French
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Rear Adm. Chuichi Hara
Jerry Fogel
Lt. Commander William Outerbridge
Carl Reindel
Lieutenant Kenneth Taylor
Elven Havard
Mess Attendant 3rd Class Doris Miller
Edmon Ryan
Rear Admiral Bellinger
Toshio Hosokawa
Lt. Cmdr. Shigeharu Murata
Hisao Toake
Saburo Kurusu
Tōru Abe
Rear Adm. Takijiro Onishi (uncredited)
Hiroshi Akutagawa
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Koichi Kido (uncredited)
Leon Alton
Official (uncredited)
Kiyoshi Atsumi
Cook #1 (uncredited)
Paul Bradley
Official (uncredited)
Harold Conway
Eugene Dooman - US Embassy Counselor (uncredited)
Francis De Sales
Capt. Arthur H. McCollum (uncredited)
George DeNormand
Official (uncredited)
Glenn Dixon
Officer at Signing of Pact (uncredited)
Dave Donnelly
Maj. Gordon A. Blake (uncredited)
James B. Douglas
French's Subordinate (uncredited)
Bill Edwards
Col. Kendall J. Fielder (uncredited)
Paul Frees
Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura (voice) (uncredited)
Bobby Gilbert
Official (uncredited)
Charles Gilbert
Lt. Col. William H. Murphy (uncredited)
Torahiko Hamada
Admiral (uncredited)
Ed Haskett
Officer at Signing of Pact (uncredited)
Ryōji Hayama
Admiral (uncredited)
Andrew Hughes
Embassy Delegation Employee of Japan (uncredited)
Hisashi Igawa
Lt. Mitsuo Matsuzaki (uncredited)
Alex Johnson
Army Officer (uncredited)
Robert Karnes
Maj. John H. Dillon (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Civilian Official Seated at Meeting Table (uncredited)
Berry Kroeger
U.S. Army General (uncredited)
Akira Kume
Katsuzo Okumura (uncredited)
Joseph La Cava
Official (uncredited)
Ken Lynch
Rear Adm. John H. Newton (uncredited)
Eitarō Matsuyama
Cook #2 (uncredited)
Mitch Mitchell
Col. Walter C. Phillips (uncredited)
Hideo Murota
Japanese Pilot (uncredited)
Jiro Okazaki
Pilot (uncredited)
John Pedrini
Official (uncredited)
Steve Pendleton
Destroyer Captain (uncredited)
Charlie Picerni
Burning Sailor (uncredited) / Stunts
Joe Pine
Official (uncredited)
Walter Reed
Vice Adm. William S. Pye (uncredited)
Robert Shayne
Cmdr. William H. Buracker (uncredited)
Edward Sheehan
Brig. Gen. Howard C. Davidson (uncredited)
Tommy Splittgerber
Ed Klein (uncredited)
G. D. Spradlin
Cmdr. Maurice E. Curts (uncredited)
Hiroshi Tom Tanaka
Japanese Midget Submarine Crewman (uncredited)
Larry Thor
Maj. Gen. Frederick L. Martin (uncredited)
George Tobias
Captain on Flight Line at Hickam Field (uncredited)
Arthur Tovey
Officer at Signing of Pact (uncredited)
Bob Turnbull
Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Harlan Warde
Brig. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow (uncredited)
Meredith 'Tex' Weatherby
Ambassador Joseph C. Grew (uncredited)
David Westberg
Ens. Edgar M. Fair (uncredited)
Bruce Wilson
Pvt. Joseph Lockard (uncredited)
Bill Zuckert
Adm. James O. Richardson (uncredited)
Mike Daneen
Edward Crocker - US Embassy First Secretary (uncredited)
Ladislas Farago
Novel
Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay
Darryl F. Zanuck
Executive Producer
Norman Rockett
Set Decoration
Taizô Kawashima
Art Direction
Richard Day
Art Direction
Duane Toler
Script Supervisor
Yoshirō Muraki
Art Direction
Walter M. Scott
Set Decoration
Jack Martin Smith
Art Direction
Layne Britton
Makeup Artist
Daniel C. Striepeke
Makeup Supervisor
Courtney Haslam
Wardrobe Supervisor
Herman Lewis
Sound Recordist
James Corcoran
Sound Recordist
Douglas O. Williams
Sound Recordist
Shin Watarai
Sound Recordist
Theodore Soderberg
Sound Recordist
Murray Spivack
Sound Recordist
Nick Dimitri
Stunts
Shinsaku Himeda
Cinematography
Masamichi Satoh
Cinematography
Osamu Furuya
Cinematography
Charles F. Wheeler
Director of Photography
Ed Wynigear
Wardrobe Master
L.B. Abbott
Visual Effects
Art Cruickshank
Visual Effects
A.D. Flowers
Special Effects
Arthur Morton
Orchestrator
Arthur Wildern
Other
George Watkins
Other
Jack Canary
Other
E. P. Stafford
Other
Kameo Sonokawa
Technical Advisor
Shizuo Takada
Technical Advisor
Kuranosuke Isoda
Technical Advisor
Tsuyoshi Saka
Technical Advisor
Otto Lang
Associate Producer
Masayuki Takagi
Associate Producer
Keinosuke Kubo
Associate Producer
Maurice Unger
Production Coordinator
Theodore Taylor
Production Coordinator
William Eckhardt
Unit Production Manager
Stanley Goldsmith
Unit Production Manager
Jack Stubbs
Unit Production Manager
Masao Namikawa
Unit Production Manager
David Hall
Assistant Director
Elliot Schick
Assistant Director
Hiroshi Nagai
Assistant Director
Ray Kellogg
Second Unit Director
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 26, 1970
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 24m
Content RatingG
Budget$25,485,000
Box Office$37,150,000
Filming LocationsSan Diego · Honolulu, United States
Genres
Wiki.
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. It was Masuda and Fukasaku's first English-language film, and first international co-production. The tora of the title, although literally meaning "tiger", is actually an abbreviation of a two-syllable codeword (i.e., totsugeki raigeki 突撃雷撃, "lightning attack"), used to indicate that complete surprise had been achieved.The film was released in the United States by Twentieth Century Fox on September 23, 1970, and in Japan by the Toei Company on September 25. It received mixed reviews from American critics, but was praised for its historical accuracy and attention to detail, its visual effects, and its action sequences. A 1994 survey at the USS Arizona Memorial determined that for Americans the film was the most common source of popular knowledge about the Pearl Harbor attack.
Tora! Tora! Tora! was nominated for five Oscars at the 43rd Academy Awards, including Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing, winning Best Visual Effects (L.B. Abbott and A.D. Flowers). The National Board of Review ranked it in its Top Ten Films of 1971.