Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

7.2/10 144 min War History Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Martin Balsam

Admiral Husband E. Kimmel

So Yamamura

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Jason Robards

General Walter C. Short

Joseph Cotten

Henry L. Stimson

Tatsuya Mihashi

Commander Minoru Genda

E.G. Marshall

Colonel Rufus S. Bratton

Takahiro Tamura

Lt. Commander Mitsuo Fuchida

James Whitmore

Admiral William F. Halsey

Eijirō Tōno

Admiral Chuici Nagumo

Wesley Addy

Lt. Commander Alwin D. Kramer

Shōgo Shimada

Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura

Frank Aletter

Lt. Commander Thomas

Koreya Senda

Prince Fumimaro Konoye

Leon Ames

Frank Knox

Jun Usami

Admiral Zengo Yoshida

Richard Anderson

Captain John B. Earle

Kazuo Kitamura

Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka

Keith Andes

General George C. Marshall

Edward Andrews

Admiral Harold R. Stark

Neville Brand

Lieutenant Harold Kaminsky

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