Tora! Tora! Tora! poster
Director Kinji Fukasaku, Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda
Screenplay Hideo Oguni, Ryūzō Kikushima, Larry Forrester

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tagline: The incredible attack on Pearl Harbor.

Release Date: 1970-01-26

Duration: 144 minutes

Synopsis

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 use 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.

Casting

  • E.G. Marshall
    Colonel Rufus S. Bratton
  • Martin Balsam
    Admiral Husband E. Kimmel
  • James Whitmore
    Admiral William F. Halsey
  • Arthur Tovey
    Officer at Signing of Pact (uncredited)
  • George Macready
    Cordell Hull
  • Jason Robards
    General Walter C. Short
  • Joseph Cotten
    Henry L. Stimson
  • Richard Anderson
    Captain John B. Earle
  • Keith Andes
    General George C. Marshall
  • Paul Frees
    Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura (voice) (uncredited)