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Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Tora! Tora! Tora! is a 1970 American/Japanese war film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, to the extent these facts were known at the time of production.

The commanders in Hawaii, General Short and Admiral Kimmel, though scapegoated for decades, are portrayed as taking defensive measures for the apparent threats, including relocation of the fighter aircraft at Pearl Harbor to the middle of the base, in response to fears of sabotage from local Japanese insurgents. They received limited warning of the increasing risk of aerial attack, which was better understood in Washington than in Honolulu. The film is famous for Isoroku Yamamoto's quote likening the attacks to "awakening a sleeping giant", although it may have been apocryphal.

The title is made up of the code-words that were used by the Japanese to indicate that complete surprise was achieved and is translated in the Japanese as "tiger", hence making the code for achieved surprise "Tiger, tiger, tiger".

Cast: 
  Martin Balsam  ...  Adm. Husband E. Kimmel  
  Sô Yamamura  ...  Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto (as Soh Yamamura)  
  Joseph Cotten  ...  Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson  
  Tatsuya Mihashi  ...  Cmdr. Minoru Genda  
  E.G. Marshall  ...  Lt. Col. Rufus S. Bratton  
  James Whitmore  ...  Vice Adm. William F. 'Bull' Halsey Jr.  
  Takahiro Tamura  ...  Lt. Cmdr. Mitsuo Fuchida  
  Eijirô Tôno  ...  Vice Adm. Chuichi Nagumo (as Eijiro Tono)  
  Jason Robards  ...  Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short  
  Wesley Addy  ...  Lt. Cmdr. Alwin D. Kramer  
  Shôgo Shimada  ...  Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura  
  Frank Aletter  ...  Lt. Cmdr. Francis J. Thomas - USS Nevada  
  Koreya Senda  ...  Prime Minister Prince Fumimaro Konoye  
  Leon Ames  ...  Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox  
  Junya Usami  ...  Adm. Zengo Yoshida
  ...

Trivia:
An American destroyer, USS Ward, spots a Japanese midget submarine trying to slip through the defensive net and enter Pearl Harbor, sinks it, and notifies the base.

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