Tora! Tora! Tora! (ラ・トラ・トラ！) DVD 1970 / Directed by Richard Fleischer / Starring: Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, James Whitmore / Soh Yamamura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Eijiro Tono, Koreya Senda (5996255724226)

UPC 5996255724226

MADE IN EU

REGION 2 PAL DVD

Audio:  English 4.1, Hungarian 2.0

Subtitles: Hungarian, Croatian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, English HOH

Runtime: 139 minutes

English Summary:

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, Sō 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 non-Japanese film.

In August 1939, the United States imposes a trade embargo on a belligerent Japan, severely limiting raw materials. Influential army figures and politicians push through an alliance with Germany and Italy in September 1940 and prepare for war. The newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, reluctantly plans a pre-emptive strike on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, believing that Japan's best hope of controlling the Pacific Ocean is to quickly annihilate the American fleet. Air Staff Officer Minoru Genda is chosen to mastermind the operation while his old Naval Academy classmate Mitsuo Fuchida is selected to lead the attack.

Meanwhile, in Washington, U.S. military intelligence has broken the Japanese Purple Code, allowing them to intercept secret Japanese radio transmissions indicating increased Japanese naval activity. Monitoring the transmissions are U.S. Army Col. Bratton and U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Kramer. At Pearl Harbor itself, Admiral Kimmel and General Short do their best to increase defensive naval and air patrols around Hawaii which could provide early warning of enemy presence. Short recommends concentrating aircraft at the base on the runways to avoid sabotage by enemy agents in Hawaii.

Hungarian Summary:

1941 nyarán az amerikai-japán viszony meglehetősen feszült, de még mindenki abban reménykedik, hogy a vitás kérdéseket sikerül diplomáciai úton rendezni. A japánok azonban már felkészültek egy Pearl Harbour elleni meglepetésszerű támadásra. Az amerikai hírszerzés ugyan figyelemmel követi a japán diplomáciai üzeneteket, de még Washington legbelsőbb körei sem tartják valószínűnek, hogy egy ilyen akció bekövetkezik, ezért nem is készülnek fel rá megfelelően...

Cast / Szereplők:

Allies

Japanese

Civilians

The film was deliberately cast with actors who were not true box-office stars, including many Japanese amateurs, in order to place the emphasis on the story rather than the actors who were in it.

Several members of the cast had themselves served in World War II.