Some of you younger movie-goers, may only know of "Pearl Harbor".
Forget it!
If you want to have the actual story of what "really" happened on December 1941, then you have to go back to this movie made in 1970.
"Tora! Tora! Tora!" is a vision from both sides of the coin, not just the American one.
"Pearl Harbor" is more a love story in its context and has only one vision, the unilateral and unnecessary patriotic American one. This is not history as it should be told.
"Tora! Tora! Tora!" was the codename given by the Japanese fleet to its carrier pilots to start the attack on Pearl Harbor.
This is far less a shooting war movie, than an actual historic recreation of facts happening on a certain month, week, day and moment in 1941.
Everything is told, from the bureaucracy involved (slow at that, as usual), to the actual military decisions on both sides and on the ground.
The attack, when it comes, is a majestic recreation that, once watched side by side with the actual documentary footage available, makes you realize that were it in black & white, one could not distinguish its differences. That's how accurate it is!
Expenses were not spared at all in doing this recreation. The aircraft used are all faithful reconstructions (a rarity!).
All the actors involved (American and Japanese) have played their roles with outmost accuracy and sense of drama.
The watcher is taken in and left wondering "what next", even if he already knows the story. Not a moment passes in boredom.
This is another fine movie I would recommend for schools and war museums.
It is a movie for thinkers, not warmungers, and it is certainly not one for those who always love to wave flags around.
In other words, this is history, told at its best.
Forget it!
If you want to have the actual story of what "really" happened on December 1941, then you have to go back to this movie made in 1970.
"Tora! Tora! Tora!" is a vision from both sides of the coin, not just the American one.
"Pearl Harbor" is more a love story in its context and has only one vision, the unilateral and unnecessary patriotic American one. This is not history as it should be told.
"Tora! Tora! Tora!" was the codename given by the Japanese fleet to its carrier pilots to start the attack on Pearl Harbor.
This is far less a shooting war movie, than an actual historic recreation of facts happening on a certain month, week, day and moment in 1941.
Everything is told, from the bureaucracy involved (slow at that, as usual), to the actual military decisions on both sides and on the ground.
The attack, when it comes, is a majestic recreation that, once watched side by side with the actual documentary footage available, makes you realize that were it in black & white, one could not distinguish its differences. That's how accurate it is!
Expenses were not spared at all in doing this recreation. The aircraft used are all faithful reconstructions (a rarity!).
All the actors involved (American and Japanese) have played their roles with outmost accuracy and sense of drama.
The watcher is taken in and left wondering "what next", even if he already knows the story. Not a moment passes in boredom.
This is another fine movie I would recommend for schools and war museums.
It is a movie for thinkers, not warmungers, and it is certainly not one for those who always love to wave flags around.
In other words, this is history, told at its best.