Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Although Tora! Tora! Tora! swept up Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay at the 1970 Hot Toasty Rag Awards, it isn’t a movie I want to watch again or even enjoyed watching the first time. It has an extremely upsetting subject matter, and for those who are unaware of the facts the three screenwriters (Larry Forrester, Hideo Oguni, and Ryuzo Kikushima) exposed, it’ll absolutely change your world view.
This lengthy war movie has nearly as much Japanese segments as American segments, as we see both sides in the days leading up to Pearl Harbor. The film absolutely crucifies American politicians and powers in charge, shedding light on horrifying truths that the history books don’t teach children. I was a political science major in college, and I still never heard even a hint of these real events. You know what Plato taught about the shadows on the cave; if you don’t want to find out what really happened, skip this movie. You can continue to worship FDR and repeat the textbook version of Pearl Harbor. But if you watch Tora! Tora! Tora!, you’ll never be the same again.
On the American side, you’ll see Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Wesley Addy, and Leon Ames; the Japanese leads are So Yamamura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takahiro Tamura, Eijiro Tono, and Shogo Shimada. Expertly directed by Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda, it feels as though we’ve really stepped back in time and are observing events spiraling out of control. It has the same flavor of movies about the Titanic. You know what’s coming, but you hope it can be stopped; when it doesn’t, you find yourself surprised in spite of yourself.
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This lengthy war movie has nearly as much Japanese segments as American segments, as we see both sides in the days leading up to Pearl Harbor. The film absolutely crucifies American politicians and powers in charge, shedding light on horrifying truths that the history books don’t teach children. I was a political science major in college, and I still never heard even a hint of these real events. You know what Plato taught about the shadows on the cave; if you don’t want to find out what really happened, skip this movie. You can continue to worship FDR and repeat the textbook version of Pearl Harbor. But if you watch Tora! Tora! Tora!, you’ll never be the same again.
On the American side, you’ll see Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Wesley Addy, and Leon Ames; the Japanese leads are So Yamamura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takahiro Tamura, Eijiro Tono, and Shogo Shimada. Expertly directed by Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda, it feels as though we’ve really stepped back in time and are observing events spiraling out of control. It has the same flavor of movies about the Titanic. You know what’s coming, but you hope it can be stopped; when it doesn’t, you find yourself surprised in spite of yourself.
Want to watch it? Click here to see it on ok.ru and thanks "kemal candan" for posting!
More Martin Balsam movies here!
More Joseph Cotten movies here!
Hot Toasty Rag Awards:
Best Picture of 1970
Best Director: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda, and Akira Kurosawa
Best Dramatic Screenplay
Hot Toasty Rag Nominations:
Best Musical Score: Jerry Goldsmith