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Tora! Tora! Tora!
Directed by Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War. From TMDB
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Tora! Tora! Tora! is a 1970 war history drama film, directed by Richard Fleischer and Kinji Fukasaku, starring Martin Balsam, So Yamamura and Jason Robards.
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60 of 200 · most liked firstI was watching Tora, Tora, Tora with my in laws and there’s a point in the movie where the Japanese characters start talking in English, where previously they were speaking in Japanese with subtitles. I was so high I thought I could suddenly understand Japanese and announced so out loud. Amazing 🤦♀️
neutral · AI labelView post →For the movie "Tora! Tora! Tora!" (1970), model makers from Fox Studios created models nearly 40 feet long. Here are several of them in the Fox tank at Calabasas, California.
neutral · AI labelView post →Film director Toshio Masuda — known in anime for directing several films in the Space Battleship Yamato franchise and outside of anime for co-directing the Japanese sequences of Tora! Tora! Tora! — died last month at 98 years old.
neutral · AI labelView post →The classic example in my subfield is probably Admiral Yamamoto’s “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve” after Pearl Harbor which was literally made up for the 1970 film Tora Tora Tora! but is now taken as a serious historical quote.
neutral · AI labelView post →In the 1970 film "Tora! Tora! Tora!," about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto says, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant, and fill him with a terrible resolve." It's repeated in the 2001 film "Pearl Harbor." There's no evidence he ever said that. Ever.
neutral · AI labelView post →Admiral Yamamoto after Pearl Harbor: “I fear that all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” Frequently quoted in serious documentaries and books. Invented by the scriptwriters of the 1970 movie Tora! Tora! Tora!
neutral · AI labelView post →Tora! Tora! Tora! is amazing. The aircraft stunt work gets plenty of well deserved praise, but so much else is excellent too. The film is methodical and ends up being a time capsule of 1970's understanding of the attack on Pearl Harbor. "Third wave" nonsense and apocryphal Yamamoto quote aside.
positive · AI labelView post →I watched the classic movie Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) last night and halfway through realized I was rooting for the Japanese. Thanks, MAGAts
neutral · AI labelView post →Film director Toshio Masuda (Red Quay, Rusty Knife, Tora! Tora! Tora! etc) has passed away at the age of 98.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dave on Ahsoka Season 2 “I see Season 2 like a war movie,” he said. “We’re drawing inspiration from epic films like Tora! Tora! Tora! and The Battle of the Bulge. Ackbar is going to be a key figure in a massive galactic fleet battle.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Outdoor set of aircraft carrier Akagi from the movie: Tora! Tora! Tora!. NOTE, Akagi island is on the wrong side, why? - Because flying scenes were filmed on US CV-10 Yorktown, where it was possible to install island mockup only on right side. So ship, set and even film model were matched.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm kinda fascinated by the BBC Genome, whch allows you to track the exact TX time and date of every film you saw on the channel. Tora ! Tora! Tora! screened at Xmas 1976 and again in 78; there's nothing like a good WWII massacre to get you in the festive mood! film-authority.com/2024/08/31/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →I'll answer a slightly different question -- what film I would have *liked* to have had a sequel for that didn't. I don't know enough about the factors that go into deciding to fund sequels of movies. I'd like to have had a sequel for *Tora Tora Tora!* doing Midway. *Tora Tora Tora!* covers the attack on Pearl Harbor. It is, also in my opinion, one of the best war films out there. A lot of war films fall into a "rah rah rah good guys versus bad guys" thing; *Tora Tora Tora!* had both…
neutral · AI labelView post →🚨Dave Filoni on ‘Ahsoka’ Season 2🚨- “I see Season 2 like a war movie, We’re drawing inspiration from epic films like Tora! Tora! Tora! and The Battle of the Bulge. Ackbar is going to be a key figure in a massive galactic fleet battle.”
neutral · AI labelView post →YouTube are launching their very own farcial free-movies-ruined-by-adverts channel with 1976's top ten hit Midway. Stock footage and Robert Mitchum in his jim-jams combine to stun in a film so sombre and self-important, it makes Tora! Tora! Tora! look like MASH…2/5 film-authority.com/2025/10/26/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →Is Tora! Tora! Tora! a Christmas movie?. Title covers it. Is [Tora! Tora! Tora!](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066473/) a Christmas movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →From a historian’s POV I think Tora Tora Tora! still stands up very strongly as a very decent attempt to explain why Pearl Harbor happened - the kind of film that would never be made today (maybe as a mini-series).
positive · AI labelView post →Just watched "Tora, Tora, Tora" again for the umpteenth time. What a superb movie that is. Far superior to most of the stuff they churn out today.
positive · AI labelView post →As much as Michael Bay wasn't a good fit for a From Here to Eternity + Tora! Tora! Tora! + Titanic mashup and it being his worst movie by far, Pearl Harbor still visually mogs most similarly-budgeted American films from the past decade
negative · AI labelView post →#filmsky 📽️ @gemini53.bsky.social @bramblejim.bsky.social @moondogrick.bsky.social @omacolt.bsky.social @tadool.bsky.social @pedropeterperico.bsky.social @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social #Bales2026FilmChallenge -Hawaii #AugustMovieChallenge -Hawaii Honolulu TORA TORA TORA youtu.be/4B6ab7uvL6M?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tora! Tora! Tora! Watch it you can find it. Great movie about the attack on Pearl Harbor.
positive · AI labelView post →TORA! TORA! TORA! is not just a great 12/7 film but a great film, full-stop. Kurosawa directed the Japanese half with watchmaker precision. it's a ratching thriller and one of the decade's best.
positive · AI labelView post →Watched TORA! TORA! TORA! (1970) Like the aircraft carriers it depicts, the film impresses through sheer scale, even as it chugs slowly and remorselessly forward.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tora! Tora! Tora! (Lots of planes doing bad things, but a good movie)
positive · AI labelView post →I think most even slightly accurate war movies don’t really glorify the war bit. Two recommendations. There is a film A24 distributed last year called [Warfare](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warfare_(film)) that follows a very accurate telling of a single operation of a platoon in Ramadi. It is pretty grim, but really gives a sense of just how brutal it can be for a small group. A lot of movies show slaughter at scale, like beaches of Normandy. That is always fascinating and dark too, but it…
neutral · AI labelView post →What is your opinion of Historical Action? See: [Tora! Tora! Tora!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lrm_jhhQXw) (Movie about Pearl Harbor that has excellent practical effects throughout and is accurate enough one could almost call it a documentary)
neutral · AI labelView post →I do not have a relationship with my father anymore but he did introduce me to the film Tora Tora Tora which is great and genuinely interesting for being a joint American/Japanese film. There was so much thought put into it.
positive · AI labelView post →Advice for the MAGA Party to remember . . . Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by forces of Imperial Japan, said: "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve". Used Movie: Tora! Tora! Tora! Pearl Harbor & Midway
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP director Masuda Toshio, 98. Among his films were Rusty Knife, Tora! Tora! Tora!, and Space Battleship Yamato: The Movie. Back in 2023 I wrote an essay on Masuda's Rusty Knife, a 1958 crime thriller that showcased an early role for actor Shishido Jo. fictionmachine.com/2023/08/21/w...
neutral · AI labelView post →Thank You, came here to say this. The gun was wrong but overall Tora Tora Tora was a much better and much more accurate movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Editor’s note: While attributed to the Admiral, Yamamato may NOT have said this. The first solid attribution of this quote is in the movie ‘Tora! Tora! Tora!’. More #MartinMonday Mariner.
neutral · AI labelView post →TORA! TORA! TORA! (1970) is an amazing film! #TCMParty #FromHereToEternity
positive · AI labelView post →TRIVIA: In 1971, 'The Big Boss' was the highest grossing film of all time in Hong Kong, beating out American productions 'The Sound Of Music' (1965) and 'Tora! Tora! Tora!' (1970). It remained the highest grossing film until the Bruce Lee film ‘Fist Of Fury’ was released in 1972. (Wikipedia) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →Cordell Hull in the film Tora, Tora, Tora: "In all my fifty years of public service, I have never seen a document so crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions, on a scale so huge that I never imagined until today that any government on this planet was capable of uttering them." #IranWar
neutral · AI labelView post →Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie: Tora! Tora! Tora! Tora! Tora! Tora!
neutral · AI labelView post →in my continued journey through WW2 film and television - ‘TORA! TORA! TORA!’ was fantastic, and i have to strongly disagree with the original reviews that called the film dull and boring!! what a lie, the suspense that pays off in the final hour of the film is incredible (especially for 1970)
positive · AI labelView post →My favorite WW2 movies: Tora Tora Tora, Come and See, Longest Day. Best Years of Our Lives, Patton, Das Boot, Run Silent Run Deep, Windtalkers, Schindler's List and The Pianist, The Unknown Soldier (Finnish movie), Downfall, Battle of Britain, Sink the Bismarck, Battle of the River Plate. #hatm
neutral · AI labelView post →Look at this: sequels, remakes, a children's book cartoon stuffed with pop culture references, a freaking video game adaptation - the only original movie is Michael Bay's riff on TORA TORA TORA?? Modern movies are washed.
neutral · AI labelView post →I know Saving Private Ryan is considered the gold standard for WWII movies, and don't get me wrong, it's a great movie. I do feel there are so many better WWII movies. Patton A Bridge Too Far. Tora! Tora! Tora! Currently watching ABTF, and I had forgotten the all-star cast.
neutral · AI labelView post →The final movie by the director of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Soylent Green and Tora! Tora! Tora! was a 95 minute commercial for Glad trash bags starring Tom Bosley, the Glad spokesman. A stuntman died while making it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tora Tora Tora was a good movie.
positive · AI labelView post →I was at West Loch loading ordnance on the days they were filming that scene. T-6 Texans with meatballs making endless passes. It was a shit movie. Tora, Tora, Tora was way better.
positive · AI labelView post →"Tora! Tora! Tora!" is such a good movie that when they were filming it triggered PTSD episodes all across O'ahu. #TrueFact #Svengoolie
positive · AI labelView post →Great movie and the stories and the trials and tribulations of making the film are amazing, too. Tora! Tora! Tora! Asking with Midway and The Battle of the Bulge form my personal holy trinity of WW2 films that were engaging and tried hard to be even in how they portrayed each side.
positive · AI labelView post →#DendensMovieDen. No. 125. Tora! Tora! Tora! As the last movie to watch before I take a break from war movies for a complete Tremors-franchise binge, I’m glad I finally watched this one as well. Forget about Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor; this is the real deal. (1/5)
positive · AI labelView post →If you need a Pearl Harbor film then Tora Tora Tora is far superior
positive · AI labelView post →Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie Two flew over the cuckoos nest Tora! Tora! Tora! Tora! Tora! Tora! The Matrices
neutral · AI labelView post →Yes, indeed! Lucas made a showreel of WW2 movie scenes for reference - most famously The Dambusters, but also 633 Squadron and Tora! Tora! Tora! Ralph McQuarrie also used WW2 photos in some of his concept art Also, the Henschel Hs 129 was cited in the Snowspeeder design!
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally finished up my first @officialairfix 1/72 A6M2b Zero! According to the box, this was a Pearl Harbor plane flown by Lt. Shindo of the Akagi. For some reason I forced the gang to watch TORA! TORA! TORA! as a Christmas movie on Christmas, so I guess this this seems a fitting plane to build up.
neutral · AI labelView post →#TCMParty At least TCM has one good Pearl Harbor movie on 12/7! (From Here to Eternity, on now). There are two good Christmas movies afterwards, but then I’m going to watch Tora, Tora, Tora.
neutral · AI labelView post →“Tora! Tora! Tora!” is still the best Pearl Harbor movie. The only good thing about “Pearl Harbor” is that they gave Doris Miller a story line (he’s on screen for less than 30 seconds in “Tora! Tora! Tora!”)
positive · AI labelView post →I was engaged throughout the whole thing, but somehow, even Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) was more compelling than this film. #Midway #TCMParty
positive · AI labelView post →Keith Andes, who plays Akuta, gives a good performance as General George Marshall in the movie Tora! Tora! Tora!. #TOSSatNight
neutral · AI labelView post →Panavision cameras were mounted on naval aircraft while camera-equipped aircraft and helicopters were leased including a B-25 bomber converted into a camera platform and three Mitsubishi A6M Zero replicas, originally built for the film Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970). youtu.be/9scmFAxnWRU?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Name a film with an airplane. Tora Tora Tora
neutral · AI labelView post →I maintain that the actual Pearl Harbour sequence of the film Pearl Harbour is amazing. The film itself not so much but the scale of the Hawaii set piece is quite remarkable. So much done practically too. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) is incredible which deals with the attack from the Japanese side.
neutral · AI labelView post →CFB Wardads: well, actually, there is no clear evidence that Yamamoto actually said that quote. It was potentially made up from whole cloth for the 1970 film "Tora Tora Tora"
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun little list of invented quotes. A lot of the best ones turn out to have no substantiation, but maybe that doesn't matter. Also the 1970 Tora Tora Tora film is such a curious thing to have existed. Japanese-American co-production, with some uncredited work from Kurosawa and released by .. Toei
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw Tora Tora Tora at the Loma Theater, one of San Diego's classic old cinemas. My dad really wanted to see that film.
neutral · AI labelView post →It absolutely is not a bit, all those ppl are in the movie It's definitely a dad movie. WWII, Tom Hanks, dir. Spielberg. It's the spiritual successor to movies that your gramps watched, like THE LONGEST DAY and TORA TORA TORA
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