Factual error: When the Japanese planes attack the airfield, none of the American planes have numbers or letters, just a star.
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
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Directed by: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku
Starring: Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Jason Robards, So Yamamura
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10/10. One of the best movies ever made about Pearl Harbor. I've seen part of the attack scene and it looked so real. Just amazing and well done film made here.
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Trivia: The code for successful surprise (and the movie's title) "Tora! Tora! Tora!" was a shortening of the words totsugeki (attack) and raigeki (the Japanese term for torpedo bombers), and was originally spelled "To ra, to ra, to ra!" Those two shortened words were interpreted by American radio operators, who happened to intercept them, as the Japanese word for "tiger"; hence "Tora! Tora! Tora!"
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