Posted on 09/19/2014 10:13:36 PM PDT by DemforBush
One of my all-time favorite submarine movies! :-)
Tora Tora Tora was made in the 70s I think.
The movie wasn’t that big here but was a smash in Japan.
One reason it was a hit in Japan was due to casting of the Japanese actors and they were speaking Japanese in their scenes! Also, WW2 is not taught to Japanese students and I'm certain that curiosity had a great part in the movie's success there.
Here, the movie was successful, and though it was not a blockbuster earner, it did make a profit for the studio.
All considered, “Tora, Tora, Tora” has established a certain level of quality in the telling of the Pearl Harbor attack of 7 December 1941.
In comparison, the 2001 production “Pearl Harbor” was a love triangle set in the period from the Battle of Britain through the Doolittle Raid on Japan. There was a lot of CGI used, but the special effects could not make up for a lousy, contrived Hollywood wartime romance that happened to include the Pearl Harbor attack. I thought that the casting was awful — Ben Affleck playing a fighter-bomber pilot and Alec Baldwin as GEN Jimmy Doolittle — strains credibility to the breaking point.
I just watched it this Saturday afternoon, a matinee.
Great flick.
i have a friend whose dad was stationed at pearl harbor during the filming. there is a scene with a lot of smoke in the background. turns out they needed to hide the distinctive silhouette of CVN-65 ENTERPRISE which was in for repairs after the hanger fire on yankee station.
Sigh...and now USS Enterprise (CVN-65) has gone to the scrap yard to become razor blades. If there was one ship that should have been preserved, it was Enterprise. We could have used its functioning nuke reactors to supply electrical power to the grid.
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