This movie was LOADS better than 2001's "Pearl Harbor". It has a place of honor in my World War II movie collection; "Pearl Harbor" doesn't even make the list.
Admiral Yamamoto respected the United States military, he didn’t want war with the United States. At the end of Tora,Tora,Tora he said all we did was wake up a sleeping giant. Admiral Yamamoto felt very sorry & remorseful about what happened.
I always wondered what Yamamoto and Rommel would have provided the world post war with their insight. In the cold war I feel they would have been incredible in force management/tactical insight.
My great grandpa survived Pearl Harbor and this was his favorite movie because it presented the facts of Pearl Harbor unlike Michael Bay's jingoistic nationalistic version of Pearl Harbor the Japanese did not fire on hospitals or Civilians they focused on the ships airstrips and barricks
@@karolean8342 No, but the man himself definitely opposed the war because he knew what the US could do. He studied at Harvard University (1919-1921) and worked twice as a naval attaché in Washington, D.C, more than enough to understand their capabilities.
@Jure Herman yes you are correct, in fact they almost didn't finish it because of director confect on the Japanese set. A really good book to read is "Pearl Harbor a verdict of history". It covers the court drama that ensued after the battle.
this is the best soundtrack I've ever heard in a movie ever. It shows the ill fated japanese army. very epic in my opinion. the most underrated film ever made!
Some would consider it dated by today's standards but I think that some of the older films are the best. And I also particularly like this film because you get to see the situation from the Japanese perspective.
I saw this as a kid in Las Vegas when it premiered. I was taken by the full scale battleship Nagato and all the aircraft replicas. The only major errors are when Yamamoto sat quietly during the battle when in real history he walked around nerviously, smoking a cigarette and was overjoyed when he heard about the success of the attack. He also never made the speech about the "sleeping giant", that's Hollywood myth.
Admiral Yamamoto was a tactical genius with strategic visionary. He knew all to well that a country, and Island even, with no strategic resources of it's own, cannot fight the whole world. Secondly, you can not defeat a nation that can pour more steel than you can pour blood.
Love the use of polyphony in this piece. It allows Goldsmith to convey several conflicting/competing moods like duty, anger, tragedy, etc. together to build the overall power and excitement of this work. Another amazing composition by the master.
Amazing such an American can turn out to be an effective Japanese original composer in the Japanese sections of the movie. I think one of the great facts of the movie is that they could do a very well done double timeline movie looking at both the American and Japanese characters that there was only one scene, and that being when the ambassadors hit Hull after the attack, when characters of both nations were seen together.
100% agree. I usually hear this piece as as 'east vs. west' - an uneasy fusion of japanese & western harmonic elements. I see that atonal edginess as generated by stacking 2 sections that each makes sense in isolation, but are really crunchy when superimposed. 2:07 - 2:28 in particular: horns propel the inevitability of conflict and honourable sacrific, while the strings counterpoint is a more traditional western evocation of tragedy.
Now awaiting the BATTLE OF THE GREAT GOD ALMIGHTY OF GATHERING TOGETHER OF NATIONS INTO THE PLACE CALLED MEGIDDO AND SALEM. After which Divine Intervention takes place in favour of Israel in overthrowing of Satan's empire and then the Glorious KINGDOM of God and His Christ and His Saints firstly and chiefly established in midst of ZION & JERUSALEM AMEN
At the time of the attack on December 7th, the Carriers of the U.S. Pacific Fleet were out. They were in the process of returning from delivering Fighter Aircraft to outlying Islands such as Midway. They did launch Fighters, but they arrived at Pearl far too late to take part in the defence and, sadly, due to the panic and confusion, were actually fired on by the ground based defences.
Best Pacific WW2 movie ever. This opening sequence is so damn haunting, all those proud, powerful Japanese Battleships and Carriers lined with men at the height of Imperial Japan, Zeros circling above them... ...And yet, the viewer is well aware that this awesome sight is doomed to uttery destruction at the hands of an enraged United States Navy for what they are about to do. Perfect music for the sequence.
"Midway" also deserves a spot in the top tier of WWII Pacific theatre films. It was a great film in its own right, and as a real Hollywood first, also used real combat film footage recorded by both sides to tell the story. Despite being a "tin can man," Admiral Spruance did one Hell of a job commanding the three US fleet carriers that ended up sinking four of the six Japanese carriers. "Point Luck" indeed! Had Spruance chosen otherwise, all three US carriers might have been lost instead of just one, which would have given Japan's chances a mighty big boost. As it was, Midway turned out to be "the beginning of the end" for Imperial Japan. They lost an awful lot of highly trained and experienced naval aviators at Midway, and were never able to fully replace the losses in either ships, aircraft or aircrew. "Midway" was a truly great film by any reasonable standard, and easily puts the jingoistic Michael Bay "epic" to shame.😉
Do we have the moral fortitude these days? Can we fight such a war with such great sacrifice? I don't know if we could stand to see a gold star in every tenth window.
@nomooon I think the moral strength comment was referring to the Japanese sense of duty and honour and the mental and emotional discipline it required. The tragedy is that this kind of spirit can't be harnessed better in peace time or in cooperation with nations and that humanity seems ill at ease in peacetime.
Thank you. I am very glad for a Japanese when I have you say so. This music was used with Sheen performing all the members saluting to convey honor of the Great Japanese Empire navy on battleship Nagato in an opening, but it seems to be the thing which arranged Kuroda bushi (the dance music of the former Kuroda feudal clan of the old samurai) and thinks that I affected The Last Samurai (Hans Zimmer) of the back 2003.
@CaptainNomura Admiral Yamamoto was one of a very small minority of Japanese who knew full well that going to War with America would bring about the the Destruction of the Japanese Empire, and he was right. He knew deep down that Japan had lost the war from that day onwards. The Moral and spiritual strength of the Japanese could not contend with the material strength of the Allies.
No matter how good you are as war fighters, how good your machines of war, you can not fight the whole world. It has more steel than you have blood to pour.
@masushan I stand corrected. My comment was from 25 year old memories of Daryl Zanuck's biography. I suppose perfectionism could be interpreted as a kind of paralysis. Churchill had a saying basically to that effect. Goldsmith himself said that there's a lot of fear at the start of a project, but all you really need to do is just keep moving forward and (sometimes it's easier than at other times) you come across the backbone of what you need and the rest is just the details.
@RogueCannon : my feeling exactly, you did put words on it. This music is so perfect because it give us a sense of the hell that will follow for both sides.
@Bla31n Kurosawa was hired to direct the Japanese sequences, but apparently (from what I've read) he suffered some kind of nervous breakdown. For example, he kept ordering the ship sets to be painted whiter and whiter shades. He was replaced after a very short period of time. You can check this up on the internet.
@FutureMarine246 the movie producers actually admitted later that they included that fictional speech because they didn't want to end the film on the negative note for the Americans. Yamamoto was smoking his second cigarette when he heard about the success of the attack and was happy because he thought that now Japan can get the oil in Borneo that they needed and they can negotiate the cease fire but after learning that Japan attacked before the final warning was given, he knew war was lost.
@LoganDarkrider Very good. His Junior Officers felt the same also. The Imperial Navy knew what they were facing even though they attacked with fanatacism. They were much aware what was as stake. Yamamoto himself took position as Fleet Commander knowing he would be safe from assasins and to ensure he could provide the best opportunity for his country to survive a war he probably knew would doom Japan.
@LoganDarkrider This attack had as he saw it a thin chance but it backfired when the US flat tops were away and not all land targets were hit. He didn't think much of the goverment as well.
@ButterscotchSentry Yes, as a 30 year Navy aviation vet (and a father and uncle who served in the pacific), "Pearl Harbor" was.... well disappointing. This movie takes both sides. Also, must read "At Dawn We Slept" by Gordon Prange. Even the junior officers of Japan's Navy did not want to 'instigate' war with the U.S.
@cabbievonbump yeah, I know cabbie. I was referring to the P-38's that shot down the plane with Yamamoto in it in1943. We had intell through intercepts that gave us where he was. Too bad the intell before the attack on Pearl was used in time. Excellent movie, saw it twice at the driven- in... same night.
One wonders how it would've been had David Lean or Akika Kurosawa had directed this movie? One wonders it would've been if John Ford or Otto Preminger had directed it? Fox wanted Preminger to directed it,but the assignment went to Richard Fleischer. I saw this years ago in full 70MM print widescreen and 6-Track Stereophonic Sound when it was re-released during the mid-1970's.
When this movie came out the Fall of 1970, the actual course of events was less then 40 years before. Updated to our time frame, that's 1983. Consider Britan's Falklands war, same time frame from us now. To people alive when it came out, the course of events for those 50 years old or older, was more devastating then 9/11 is to us now.
@LoganDarkrider that's why i like this movie and others like it- the film Gettysburg does the same thing. dont really care if the effects are old. we get the point
If this was not real history it would make a great sci fi movie. 2 totally different high tech cultures meeting on a open space with huge ships and fighters instead of a ground war.
Grew up watching a beat up cassete video of this movie my dad had. Loved every minute of it. I don't need to explain how I felt any further since I'm sure many share the same opinion I will now express. All I will say is I'm utterly disappointed with pearl harbor. There is no comparison to be made. Appariently people won't watch anything remotely historically correct at all and only go for stupid romance stories with modern movie obligatory sex scenes!
@CaptainNomura You have to make some concession to history when making a film but all in all this is a brilliant creation the likes of which we simply don't get any more, one of the best documentary/drama films ever and way way ahead of the recent Pearl Harbour" fantasy.
The American Pacific Fleet was attacked and partially destroyed by Japan on Sunday morning December 7th, 1941. This attack led to the entering of the United States into World War II. All of the events and characters depicted are true to historical fact.
@DairDubh You are correct in your statement. The Japanese would have been capable of winning the war, probably not by invading the United States, but rather by forcing a peace after defeating their willpower and fighting them off efficiently at key battles such as Guadalcanal as you said already. Had the Japanese not been thinking as negative of failure in a way that they feel "suicidal" (literally), they sure would have had been capable to conquer all of the Pacific, Asia, and Australia. -Bryan
East meets West is the theme of another epic Goldsmith track. Soundtracks these days don't support their movie. Williams and John Powell (Bourne series) come close though
Masa are you entirely stupid? The uk was fighting wayyyyyyyy before the yanks even joined the war!!!! If we hadn't held out then the whole war in Europe would have failed. If the U.K. Hadn't won the Battle of Britain and stopped Germany from invading d-day would never have happened as there would be no bases to launch the ships And aircraft from!!! Also in the Mediterranean the uk was fighting from virtually September 39 against the Italians in central Africa and later in 1940-42 against the Italians and Germans in North Africa the USA didn't join the med war until 1943. Thirdly in Asia the British and the Australian and the New Zealand forces where fighting the Japanese from 1940 until 1945 in places like Burma, Singapore and Malaysia so don't you DARE say that the yanks won the war single handed because that's just wrong..
MIG 21 FAN Sorry to tell you, but you are the entirely stupid one if you dont realize the sarcasm in that comment. If a person has any brain cells, surely he knows that the biggest fighter and sacrificer was the soviets, no-one would think americans were the only ones.
@CitizenPaine1776 so very true Peal Harbor only shows like 5 mins of history and the rest is just some love story like in the movie titanic, Pearl Harbor would have been great if it werent for the love story and showed more History
I absolutely love this movie. BTW I know this isn't relevant, but does anybody know the name of the song the band plays aboard the Akagi when Yamamoto arrives in the first scene?
The problem was that the Americans found out after the incident the army and navy were really not good at combining local forces and local commands. Also, the army commander in chief at the time thought that it would be easier to mount an attack from the outside rather than from Japan and thus his planes were bombed to hell during the attack. The naval commander was seen as a man who would have launched everything he had if he had known where to strike but at the same time did not entirely use his resources at least to sound the alarm that day.
ever hear what the real pilot of the one who flew the planes at pearl harbor and shot some japanese planes down, the one who lived till 2006. He hated Ben Afleck and Josh Hartnett
Kurosawa was originally slated to direct the Japanese sequences. I think Richard Fleischer was right when he said it was just as well he backed out. Kurosawa was a master, but this just wasn't his kind of movie. He never made anything else remotely like it, and I don't think he was, by temperament and inclination, suited to direct what was, essentially, a docudrama.
This movie was LOADS better than 2001's "Pearl Harbor". It has a place of honor in my World War II movie collection; "Pearl Harbor" doesn't even make the list.
ijnfleetadmiral 2001 movie was a love story set at the time with the attack playing second fiddle. Boring!
Totally agree Pearl Harbour is just cheating love story..it has just got better effects i wish this movie was made with same technology
@@erhanfunda A "Tora! Tora! Tora!" remake with today's special effects would be EPIC.
Totally agree, they kept this movie about Pearl Harbor and nothing else. It didn’t need extra garbage put in. Plus the music in this is epic
@@ijnfleetadmiral Then again, this movie was made with the attitude to show it as it was. CGI would only make it look fake.
Admiral Yamamoto was man of courage committed to his homeland. He died while visiting injured troops.I am American but respect Military History.
Admiral Yamamoto respected the United States military, he didn’t want war with the United States. At the end of Tora,Tora,Tora he said all we did was wake up a sleeping giant. Admiral Yamamoto felt very sorry & remorseful about what happened.
He even studied in the US
@@christophers.o622 There had been a threat of war between the United States and Japan for some time though...
He has served his majesty well...
I always wondered what Yamamoto and Rommel would have provided the world post war with their insight. In the cold war I feel they would have been incredible in force management/tactical insight.
My great grandpa survived Pearl Harbor and this was his favorite movie because it presented the facts of Pearl Harbor unlike Michael Bay's jingoistic nationalistic version of Pearl Harbor the Japanese did not fire on hospitals or Civilians they focused on the ships airstrips and barricks
US navy and Japanese navy made History!! Great respect for both. Peace on earth.
Very respectfully
except civ airplane trainer did get attacked and were shot at while landing
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
--Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
I think you could now say the same thing about Trump.
In fact there is no evidence of him saying this in real life
@@karolean8342 No, but the man himself definitely opposed the war because he knew what the US could do. He studied at Harvard University (1919-1921) and worked twice as a naval attaché in Washington, D.C, more than enough to understand their capabilities.
@@karolean8342 you are correct sir, this was a Hollywood script for the American audience not history.
@Jure Herman yes you are correct, in fact they almost didn't finish it because of director confect on the Japanese set. A really good book to read is "Pearl Harbor a verdict of history". It covers the court drama that ensued after the battle.
Menacing composition. Great work by Goldsmith.
this is the best soundtrack I've ever heard in a movie ever. It shows the ill fated japanese army. very epic in my opinion. the most underrated film ever made!
Some would consider it dated by today's standards but I think that some of the older films are the best. And I also particularly like this film because you get to see the situation from the Japanese perspective.
And not to mention real AC flying!🙄
Jman
Definitely-it’s a real treat to watch Frank Tallman wringing out his P-40 in the dogfight sequence!
I agree with you this is a great movie and the music was perfect.
I saw this as a kid in Las Vegas when it premiered. I was taken by the full scale battleship Nagato and all the aircraft replicas. The only major errors are when Yamamoto sat quietly during the battle when in real history he walked around nerviously, smoking a cigarette and was overjoyed when he heard about the success of the attack. He also never made the speech about the "sleeping giant", that's Hollywood myth.
The speech was a great way to show how Yamamoto really felt about the war they've started...
Today is the 80th anniversary of the attack...
And I think it's more than fitting to start the day off by listening to this.
some great special effects without CGI....
Everything about this film is perfect, coming together to create a masterpiece.
Admiral Yamamoto was a tactical genius with strategic visionary. He knew all to well that a country, and Island even, with no strategic resources of it's own, cannot fight the whole world. Secondly, you can not defeat a nation that can pour more steel than you can pour blood.
the most underrated war film
ジェリーゴールドスミスの曲はどれもカッコ良くて好き。
Tora! Tora! Tora! Best Pearl Harbor Movie Ever Made!
Powerful scene for a crazy intense time in human history.
Love the use of polyphony in this piece. It allows Goldsmith to convey several conflicting/competing moods like duty, anger, tragedy, etc. together to build the overall power and excitement of this work. Another amazing composition by the master.
Amazing such an American can turn out to be an effective Japanese original composer in the Japanese sections of the movie. I think one of the great facts of the movie is that they could do a very well done double timeline movie looking at both the American and Japanese characters that there was only one scene, and that being when the ambassadors hit Hull after the attack, when characters of both nations were seen together.
100% agree. I usually hear this piece as as 'east vs. west' - an uneasy fusion of japanese & western harmonic elements. I see that atonal edginess as generated by stacking 2 sections that each makes sense in isolation, but are really crunchy when superimposed. 2:07 - 2:28 in particular: horns propel the inevitability of conflict and honourable sacrific, while the strings counterpoint is a more traditional western evocation of tragedy.
@@martintheiss743 Although JG was born in USA his parents are Romania/Russian
It is our hope
That all the world's oceans
Be joined in peace,
So why do the winds and waves
Now rise up in angry rage?
70 + years later we live in peace
2view :) the navies of the world... are happy for this.
Easy muslims.
Peace?? Are you sure??
Now awaiting the BATTLE OF THE GREAT GOD ALMIGHTY OF GATHERING TOGETHER OF NATIONS INTO THE PLACE CALLED MEGIDDO AND SALEM. After which Divine Intervention takes place in favour of Israel in overthrowing of Satan's empire and then the Glorious KINGDOM of God and His Christ and His Saints firstly and chiefly established in midst of ZION & JERUSALEM AMEN
At the time of the attack on December 7th, the Carriers of the U.S. Pacific Fleet were out. They were in the process of returning from delivering Fighter Aircraft to outlying Islands such as Midway. They did launch Fighters, but they arrived at Pearl far too late to take part in the defence and, sadly, due to the panic and confusion, were actually fired on by the ground based defences.
The quality of the recording and the clarity of the detail of performance is very impressive for 1970.
because it is a rerecording
Best Pacific WW2 movie ever.
This opening sequence is so damn haunting, all those proud, powerful Japanese Battleships and Carriers lined with men at the height of Imperial Japan, Zeros circling above them...
...And yet, the viewer is well aware that this awesome sight is doomed to uttery destruction at the hands of an enraged United States Navy for what they are about to do.
Perfect music for the sequence.
estados unidos demostro por que no son solo una potencia economica sino que la voluntad de lucha de su pueblo es sencillamente insuperable
"Midway" also deserves a spot in the top tier of WWII Pacific theatre films. It was a great film in its own right, and as a real Hollywood first, also used real combat film footage recorded by both sides to tell the story.
Despite being a "tin can man," Admiral Spruance did one Hell of a job commanding the three US fleet carriers that ended up sinking four of the six Japanese carriers.
"Point Luck" indeed! Had Spruance chosen otherwise, all three US carriers might have been lost instead of just one, which would have given Japan's chances a mighty big boost. As it was, Midway turned out to be "the beginning of the end" for Imperial Japan. They lost an awful lot of highly trained and experienced naval aviators at Midway, and were never able to fully replace the losses in either ships, aircraft or aircrew.
"Midway" was a truly great film by any reasonable standard, and easily puts the jingoistic Michael Bay "epic" to shame.😉
Crazy to think that the us able to cripple 80% of japan navy in just one battle.
Epic film....with epic soundtrack.
Would love to see a good remake of this.
Always loved that this told both sides of the story.
I watched Tora! Tora! Tora! on Film 4 on Sunday 11th November. It still fascinates me. Some great actors.
Do we have the moral fortitude these days? Can we fight such a war with such great sacrifice? I don't know if we could stand to see a gold star in every tenth window.
them milinials cant do shit
I am today watching this video on December 7th, 2021. Lest we forget.
日本の伝統的な歌の代表が「桜」。日本の古代の宗教音楽「雅楽」の中で最も有名なのが「越天楽」。これらの旋律に基づいて作曲されている。
@gunsou724 追記ありがとうございます。少年の頃映画館でこのオープニングを観たとき日本人としてとても感動しました。しかしその翌年のミッドウェイ海戦以降
空母（A carrier）赤城(akagi) 加賀(kaga) 飛龍(hiryu) 蒼龍(souryu)を失い制空権が無くなり徐々に敗戦に向かっていく事実を知り、後々「眠れる獅子？を起こしてしまった。」と言う聯合艦隊司令長官の台詞が重いテーマとして残りました。
Beautiful haunting music 🎵🎶
Cool Sound
@nomooon I think the moral strength comment was referring to the Japanese sense of duty and honour and the mental and emotional discipline it required. The tragedy is that this kind of spirit can't be harnessed better in peace time or in cooperation with nations and that humanity seems ill at ease in peacetime.
Great Movie 👍🏻🎥
I love this music 🎶❤
Heart wrenching.
A MASTERPIECE !!!
Se nota la mezcla de la incidencia japonesa y el suspenso americano en esta magnífica composición de Jerry Goldsmith.
Thank you. I am very glad for a Japanese when I have you say so. This music was used with Sheen performing all the members saluting to convey honor of the Great Japanese Empire navy on battleship Nagato in an opening, but it seems to be the thing which arranged Kuroda bushi (the dance music of the former Kuroda feudal clan of the old samurai) and thinks that I affected The Last Samurai (Hans Zimmer) of the back 2003.
Listening to this song while in the 3-4 Fox Mines helps your chances of getting Kaga and Akagi drops.
Its also my favourite movie theme. I have the DVD movie. Thanks for share this....greetz from Belgium.
@CaptainNomura
Admiral Yamamoto was one of a very small minority of Japanese who knew full well that going to War with America would bring about the the Destruction of the Japanese Empire, and he was right. He knew deep down that Japan had lost the war from that day onwards. The Moral and spiritual strength of the Japanese could not contend with the material strength of the Allies.
No matter how good you are as war fighters, how good your machines of war, you can not fight the whole world. It has more steel than you have blood to pour.
Great music from the past !
@masushan I stand corrected. My comment was from 25 year old memories of Daryl Zanuck's biography. I suppose perfectionism could be interpreted as a kind of paralysis. Churchill had a saying basically to that effect. Goldsmith himself said that there's a lot of fear at the start of a project, but all you really need to do is just keep moving forward and (sometimes it's easier than at other times) you come across the backbone of what you need and the rest is just the details.
@RogueCannon : my feeling exactly, you did put words on it. This music is so perfect because it give us a sense of the hell that will follow for both sides.
@Bla31n Kurosawa was hired to direct the Japanese sequences, but apparently (from what I've read) he suffered some kind of nervous breakdown. For example, he kept ordering the ship sets to be painted whiter and whiter shades. He was replaced after a very short period of time. You can check this up on the internet.
@FutureMarine246 the movie producers actually admitted later that they included that fictional speech because they didn't want to end the film on the negative note for the Americans. Yamamoto was smoking his second cigarette when he heard about the success of the attack and was happy because he thought that now Japan can get the oil in Borneo that they needed and they can negotiate the cease fire but after learning that Japan attacked before the final warning was given, he knew war was lost.
@LoganDarkrider Very good. His Junior Officers felt the same also. The Imperial Navy knew what they were facing even though they attacked with fanatacism. They were much aware what was as stake. Yamamoto himself took position as Fleet Commander knowing he would be safe from assasins and to ensure he could provide the best opportunity for his country to survive a war he probably knew would doom Japan.
Im so happy i found this beatifull track.
Banzai !
TheRaptorSh00T 様
万歳！！
バンザイ！！
from Japan
classic forever! the first time I saw this clip was 1990 in China...
@LoganDarkrider This attack had as he saw it a thin chance but it backfired when the US flat tops were away and not all land targets were hit. He didn't think much of the goverment as well.
@ButterscotchSentry Yes, as a 30 year Navy aviation vet (and a father and uncle who served in the pacific), "Pearl Harbor" was.... well disappointing. This movie takes both sides. Also, must read "At Dawn We Slept" by Gordon Prange. Even the junior officers of Japan's Navy did not want to 'instigate' war with the U.S.
TIGER TIGER TIGER!
FearLicks 様
虎 虎 虎！！
from Japan
@Xeresa18 In this film Takahiro Tamura was a Japanese Pilot Mitsuo Fuchida
One wonders how it would've been had David Lean and Akira Kurosawa had directed this movie?
@cabbievonbump yeah, I know cabbie. I was referring to the P-38's that shot down the plane with Yamamoto in it in1943. We had intell through intercepts that gave us where he was. Too bad the intell before the attack on Pearl was used in time. Excellent movie, saw it twice at the driven- in... same night.
Super song thanks for share this
@masushan
You should watch the Blu-Ray edition of it thats even better and it has some small extended Japanese Scenes too, well worth the watch :)
Great and haunting soundtrack with Japanese background
"Talmud! Talmud! Talmud!"
I love Mystery Science Theater 3000.
One wonders how it would've been had David Lean or Akika Kurosawa had directed this movie? One wonders it would've been if John Ford or Otto Preminger had directed it? Fox wanted Preminger to directed it,but the assignment went to Richard Fleischer. I saw this years ago in full 70MM print widescreen and 6-Track Stereophonic Sound when it was re-released during the mid-1970's.
When this movie came out the Fall of 1970, the actual course of events was less then 40 years before. Updated to our time frame, that's 1983. Consider Britan's Falklands war, same time frame from us now. To people alive when it came out, the course of events for those 50 years old or older, was more devastating then 9/11 is to us now.
Awesome cover
A note found in a briefcase of a down Japanese pilot read: "Go to the devil you hell!!!"
@LoganDarkrider that's why i like this movie and others like it- the film Gettysburg does the same thing. dont really care if the effects are old. we get the point
If this was not real history it would make a great sci fi movie. 2 totally different high tech cultures meeting on a open space with huge ships and fighters instead of a ground war.
Remember where you have fallen America 🔥🇺🇸🔥
Very good!!!
@CaptainNomura im pretty sure he did make that speech, just not when he did in the movie, but I could be wrong
Grew up watching a beat up cassete video of this movie my dad had. Loved every minute of it. I don't need to explain how I felt any further since I'm sure many share the same opinion I will now express. All I will say is I'm utterly disappointed with pearl harbor. There is no comparison to be made. Appariently people won't watch anything remotely historically correct at all and only go for stupid romance stories with modern movie obligatory sex scenes!
Totally agree
@Bla31n Kkurosawa started to direct the Japanese portion.. he was fired...
@CaptainNomura You have to make some concession to history when making a film but all in all this is a brilliant creation the likes of which we simply don't get any more, one of the best documentary/drama films ever and way way ahead of the recent Pearl Harbour" fantasy.
The American Pacific Fleet was attacked and partially destroyed by Japan on Sunday morning December 7th, 1941. This attack led to the entering of the United States into World War II. All of the events and characters depicted are true to historical fact.
@DairDubh You are correct in your statement. The Japanese would have been capable of winning the war, probably not by invading the United States, but rather by forcing a peace after defeating their willpower and fighting them off efficiently at key battles such as Guadalcanal as you said already. Had the Japanese not been thinking as negative of failure in a way that they feel "suicidal" (literally), they sure would have had been capable to conquer all of the Pacific, Asia, and Australia. -Bryan
East meets West is the theme of another epic Goldsmith track. Soundtracks these days don't support their movie. Williams and John Powell (Bourne series) come close though
@CaptainNomura He wrote it in his diary.
God bless our vets who fought against the Japanese and Nazi empires in WW2. You were a tough generation! God bless America.
Yes, because only the US fought the Axis.
Martin Larsen rumour has the British were in the war too.... on their own for 3 years!
Geoff Orman Ofcourse they were not? U.S was the only one in the war against these evil goverments and you know that.
Masa are you entirely stupid? The uk was fighting wayyyyyyyy before the yanks even joined the war!!!! If we hadn't held out then the whole war in Europe would have failed. If the U.K. Hadn't won the Battle of Britain and stopped Germany from invading d-day would never have happened as there would be no bases to launch the ships And aircraft from!!! Also in the Mediterranean the uk was fighting from virtually September 39 against the Italians in central Africa and later in 1940-42 against the Italians and Germans in North Africa the USA didn't join the med war until 1943. Thirdly in Asia the British and the Australian and the New Zealand forces where fighting the Japanese from 1940 until 1945 in places like Burma, Singapore and Malaysia so don't you DARE say that the yanks won the war single handed because that's just wrong..
MIG 21 FAN Sorry to tell you, but you are the entirely stupid one if you dont realize the sarcasm in that comment. If a person has any brain cells, surely he knows that the biggest fighter and sacrificer was the soviets, no-one would think americans were the only ones.
The boy version is Tore, btw! ending on e for guys and a for chicks.
I got my name from this film !!
This war movie is so classic!!!! What do you guys think?
@Bla31n
If that were the case it would have been an absolute masterpiece methinks.
That would make an awesome movie. How about a story about his father or smt? :p
Pearl Harbour was the biggest Japanese victory in Pacifik War.
@CitizenPaine1776 so very true Peal Harbor only shows like 5 mins of history and the rest is just some love story like in the movie titanic, Pearl Harbor would have been great if it werent for the love story and showed more History
I absolutely love this movie. BTW I know this isn't relevant, but does anybody know the name of the song the band plays aboard the Akagi when Yamamoto arrives in the first scene?
I think it is called 'Umi Yukaba (海ゆかば).'
@@mhomel Yep it is, thanks 👍 the lyrics are pretty fanatic
@irish89055 Those aircraft are P-40 Warhawks, not the P-38 Lightnings.
Japanese great!
fine war movie....
The problem was that the Americans found out after the incident the army and navy were really not good at combining local forces and local commands. Also, the army commander in chief at the time thought that it would be easier to mount an attack from the outside rather than from Japan and thus his planes were bombed to hell during the attack. The naval commander was seen as a man who would have launched everything he had if he had known where to strike but at the same time did not entirely use his resources at least to sound the alarm that day.
So funny :) So your not from Norway or Sweden, but still ur name is Tora?
Can anyone pl tell me the name of this song??I have been trying for years to get it…tx u…
ever hear what the real pilot of the one who flew the planes at pearl harbor and shot some japanese planes down, the one who lived till 2006. He hated Ben Afleck and Josh Hartnett
I wanted to preserve a copy of this epic movie . But , I could not get a source ?
Talk about your crouching tiger . . .
@LoganDarkrider Straight A's on that.
such power they had. such will, spirit, wit, knowledge, strength and technology. all for nothing. such a waste of so many people and property. USA !
Who are you talking about?
Roger Ebert was a tool.
estoy de acuerdo, esta es mucho mejor.
@Wolcott A used piece of toilet paper is betther than that colostomy of a movie called "Pearl Harbor."
OMG !!!! haha (I didn't know that...)
@LoganDarkrider Moral strength????? not when you a force for EVIL.... You're correct about Yamamoto.... nice p-38's... nice...
Kurosawa was originally slated to direct the Japanese sequences. I think Richard Fleischer was right when he said it was just as well he backed out. Kurosawa was a master, but this just wasn't his kind of movie. He never made anything else remotely like it, and I don't think he was, by temperament and inclination, suited to direct what was, essentially, a docudrama.