Tora! Tora! Tora! (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

This is taken from a book of the same name, written by an American in the US occupation force who wrote this detailed history based on inside information including, among other important details,, the American partial cracking of the Japanese code, which led them to the conclusion a number of hours in advance that a very long coded message to the Japanese embassy was in fact a declaration of war, meaning all US forces needed to be on an immediate war footing.Then it took hours to locate and bring together the necessary military and administration officials, and the military officer sent to telegraph Pearl Harbor couldn't deal with the fact his own service's direct telecommunications with Pearl Harbor were down, couldn't bring himself to use the other service's, and instead sent it Western Union, neglected to mark it urgent, and it hopscotched through myriad intermediatry Western Union offices before finally arriving at Pearl Harbor, hours late.There was also the brass who ignorned a kill of a mini-sub near the harbor and the radar installation - which only operated at night when it wouldn't step on commercial radio broadcasts, reported huge flight incoming, and the supervising officer decided without inquiring further it must be a flight from San Diego and told the crew to sign off and go back to barracks. Then there was the airfield officer who ignored orders from higher up and clustered all his planes under guard, more worried about Japanese saboteurs than being attacked, meaning only two fighters ever got off the ground.A SNAFU from beginning to end, but as usual, not the nonsensical conspiracy alleged by nitwits who think FDR let them sink the Pacific fleet to get into WWII - as if it wouldn't be enough that they declared war, attacked - and we won the battle. As usual, given a choice between stupid and a vast secret conspiracy - especially when it doesn't make sense even if it were true - it's going to be stupid 100% of the time. Everyone operates with recency bias. We can't believe the yellow man would attack us across thousands of miles of ocean, just as the Brits couldn't imagine the Japanese could run through Malaysia to Singapore, where the Japanese practically walked in unopposed.Like most wars, it started with myriad errors, mostly on the US side (the Japanese had been fighting in Asia for close to a decade and had a well honed war machine). Save the biggest blunder - declaring war on the US in the first place. The quote attributed to Yamamoto at the end - that the Japanese had awakened a terrible enemy and could only hope to delay the inevitable - was not a recorded quote from the time, though it probably reflected his thinking; he had lived in the US for a time and had a very good idea about the industrial capacity of the US which Japan could not match.Weirdly, the unabridged book was only published in Japanese, in Japan, though written by an American with the military//diplomatic delegation, and is available in English to this day only, to my knowledge, in abridged form, by, of all people, Reader's Digest 40 years ago!A Youtube history channel (sorry, don't recall which) counted this as unsurpassed in its historical accuracy, and I've no reason to doubt it. Well done all around. No dominant heroes - and plenty of stupid to go around along with some heroism, but believable characters on both sides, including Japanese playing the Japanese getting equal time, speaking Japanese. (I haven't checked, but I imagine this also saw release in Japan).If you're looking for a movie you can chant USA! to, maybe not your movie, but if you want an accurate picture of how wars often start - with mind-numbing blunders as well as courage, which can turn around if you can survive long enough - this is a fine example. It's very convenient having thousands of miles of ocean between us and any country with hope of threatening us, though that's less comfort in the nuclear age.

This movie is almost a documentary which makes it very accurate in the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japan. I enjoyed in every time I watch it.

The first time I saw Tora! Tora! Tora! was on the big screen at Naval Hospital, San Diego. I liked it so much I saw it three nights in a row. Some years later, I purchased the VHS video tape the day of its release. I have two DVD versions of Tora! Tora! Tora! as well as two VHS versions of the movie. I've also watched the Japanese version (with English subtitles). Tora! Tora! Tora! is a great film but it should not be taken as the ultimate "truth" about Pearl Harbor and how America got into World War II.Tora! Tora! Tora! used an American director for the American sequences, and two Japanese directors (the first was fired) for the filming of the Japanese sequences. Much of the original Japanese crew was let go when the first Japanese director was fired (for being way over budget and for producing only 600 feet of film, as I recall).This is a truly excellent movie that men and women can both watch and enjoy.Beware, however, the scenes showing the "12 Apositles" who were "allowed access" to `Magic'(decrypted Japanese diplomatic and consular intercepts). The actual number of Americans with access to Magic was well over 100. And the President's name was NEVER taken off what the movie calls "the Ultra List." (FDR didn't actually read all the daily diplomatic intercepts, of which the Army and Navy had just over 8,000 in 1941 alone. Instead, he read daily summaries of the intercepts. The same applies to most of the senior officers in the War and Navy Departments.)Alwin D. Kramer, Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy, and Colonel Rufus Sumnter Bratton, U.S. Army, both worked in different offices rather than in a combined Army-Navy office shown in the movie. Both men were attached to the Far Eastern Sections of their respective intelligence departments (Office of Naval Intelligence with Kramer; Military Intelligence Division (for Bratton).) Bratton was officer in charge of the Far Eastern Section of MID. Kramer was head of OP-20-GZ (translation section in the Office of Naval Communications, OP-20), but he was actually on OP-16's (Office of Naval Intelligence's) payroll. Tora! Tora! Tora! gives Bratton's middle initial as "G", but that is in error. His middle name was Sumnter, as stated above."Magic" (again, intercepted foreign diplomatic and consular messages) was critical to what the U.S. (and British) Governments knew of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's diplomatic efforts. Although the National Security Agency still denies this, we also had a product called Ultra as relates to Japan. These were intercepted, decoded and translated Japanese naval and military intercepts. Ultra played a major part in our victory over the Combined Fleet in the Battle of Midway, fought 4 to 6 June 1942.Tora! Tora! Tora! is, as I said, an excellent movie. It's full of suspense and it is very well acted by both the Americans and the Japanese. It presents a fair few of both the American and Japanese perspectives that helped lead to "Pearl Harbor" and U.S. entry into the Second World War.First Lieutenant Kermit A. Tyler is claimed in the movie to say, "Well, don't worry about it," when he's told of the large number of planes approaching the Opana Point Radar station from north of Oahu (flying in over Kahuku Point). Tyler himself later testified that this was his reaction to the radar report phoned to him by Privates Lockard and Elliott. Here's the rub: The USS LEXINGTON had a radar and visual sighting of two Japanese carrier aircraft approximately 400 miles north west of Oahu on Saturday afternoon, 6 December 1941. LEXINGTON's radar report was the real first sighting of some of the Japanese aircraft that took part in the raid on Pearl Harbor.American intelligence didn't "fail" in the lead up to the events of 7 December 1941. Intelligence, however, isn't always used the way the average citizen thinks it should be used. Those in high political and military offices have many strategic and tactical matters they have to factor into the decision making process. Not the least of these was the apathy of the American people in the period leading up to the Japanese raid on our obsolete battleships at Pearl Harbor. (Our three carriers then in the Pacific, LEXINGTON, ENTERPRISE and SARATOGA were not in port on 7 Dec. 1941. "Target ship," USS UTAH, was moored at a carrier berth off Ford Island. Battleship COLORADO, that had completed an overhaul at Bremerton, Washington a month before, was still at Bremerton. WEST VIRGINIA, that was overdue for overhaul, was moored outboard at Ford Island.)This reviewer spent a little over 13 years researching Pearl Harbor on a full time basis. He has absolutely no animus for the Japanese---nor does he hold any animus for any of the senior Americans involved with Pearl Harbor."Pearl Harbor" saved the world (including Japan, in my opinion) from the Nazis. At the cost of a few thousand Americans, millions of lives were spared in Europe and Asia---and, ultimately---in the U.S. as well.Tora! Tora! Tora! is one of my ten favorite movies. I've probably watched it over 50 times in the past thirty six years or so. And I will probably watch it another fifty times or more between now and the time I storm the great beyond.E.G. Marshall (R.S. Bratton) and Wesley Addy (A.D. Kramer) in the film both do exceptional jobs with their acting. So does every other member of the U.S. and Japanese cast, in my opinion.Great movie---and, in my opinion, a "Must have" for every American and Japanese who appreciates the very best in direction, acting, scenery, editing, cinamatography, etc. This is also a good action film---and it is fair to both the Japanese and American perspectives.A "Well done!" to every member of the cast and crew of Tora! Tora! Tora! and to 20th Century Fox for producing this wonderful movie!Andrew McKane IVMissoula, Montana

Husband watches a lot of WW2 movies and thinks this is a closer true accounting of the events.

Best movie on the 7 December attack. Made before computer generated special effects. Accurate account of attack and events leading up to it.

Love the movie

I don't usually go for these 2 disc sets but in this case it is defiantly worth it.The second disc explains how the movie was made and the problems directors and producers had to overcome. Very interesting especially since the script had to be ok'd by the Japanese director and government as well as the US directors and military.The goal of the production was to have a factual representation of the attack FROM BOTH SIDES !The movie is among the great ones and the added second disc is a story all it's own.

Good quality picture. It plays like I would expect it to play.

Just what I wanted

As advertised.

Enjoyed watching this again after many years

L'attaque commence qu'après 1h30 de film et pendant une heure. Donc tous les personnages sont bien en place ainsi que le déroulement de la préparation de l'attaque et de la non défense américaine procoquée par des incompétences à tous les niveaux d'une ou plusieurs personnes malgré les efforts d'autres. C'est d'ailleurs un livre écrit sur des dysfonctionnements qui est l'un des deux livres à la base de ce film.Même si le son n'est pas parfait ni les images je mets 5 étoiles pour l'explication pédagogique d'une part et les superbes scènes d'attaques d'autre part.Edition collector.Contient donc le DVD et le Blu-Ray plus quelques pages infos.Le BLU-RAY :Version cinéma : 2h25Version japonaise : 2h29Les deux versions sont disponibles en français.Une pause (intermission) se trouve à presque 1h30 et dure 2 minutes.De belles images mais pas au top car beaucoup de pixels sont présents notamment dans les ciels lorsque le jour se lève.Le son français est très bon concernant les bruits d'avions et autres mais il y a une très grande différence de volume entre les dialogues et les autres sons. A volume « ordinaire » pour les dialogues on peut être surpris du volume élevé tout à coup d'un moteur.Le film a été voulu par les producteurs du film « Le jour le plus long » et ils ont voulu montrer l'histoire des deux côtés : japonais et américains.Aussi il y a Richard Fleisher pour la réalisation des scènes américaines et Toshio Masuda et Kinji Fugasaku pour la réalisation japonaise. Sinsaku Himcha et Masamichi Satoh et Osami Furuya pour la photographie côté japonais.Ce film tourné en 1968 et 1969 et sorti en 1970 a été à l'époque le deuxième film le plus cher de l'histoire après Cléopâtre.Les langues disponibles :Anglais DTS 5,1Français DTS 5,1Aleemand DTSItalien DTSAnglais Dolby Digital AudioLes sous-titres disponibles :anglais, français, danois, finlandais, allemand, italien, hollandais, norvégien, suédois et ces.BONUS :-Commentaire de Richard Fleisher et de l'historien du cinéma japonais Stuart Galbraith dans la version cinéma.-Jour d'infamie : 20 minutes en vo sous-titrée sur l'histoire « historique »-Une émission télé : L 'histoire et Hollywood : Tora ! Tora ! Tora ! Un géant s'éveille. 1H30 en vo sous-titrée.Très intéressant sur la comapraison vérité retransmise au cinéma.-Une autre émission télé : AMC Backstory Tora ! Tora ! Tora !22 minutes en version originale sous-titréeIntéressant encore même si on retrouve des images et paroles du bonus précédent.-Galerie des coulisses du tournage.2 minutes de photos du tournage. On voit quelues maquettes utilisées pour le film ainsi que des portaits photos d'acteurs.-Galerie de la production6 minutes d photos portaits d'acteurs principalement.-Fox Movie to news40 minutes environ en Version Originale Sous-Titrée de nombreuses actualités de l'époque et des mois et années qui suivirent l'attaque.*Première images après l'attaque.*Pearl Harbour : cela peut être montré maintenant.Une année de guerre depuis Pearl Harbor.*En guerre avec le Japon = c'est un bon résumé de la situation géopolitique d'avant l'attaque.*Les Etats-Unis déclarent la guerre au Japon.*Les premières images des attaques des îles japonaises.*Les villes japonaises bombardées par des avions de l'armée américaine.*Le Président récompense « Johnny » Dolitle pour le raid sur le Japon.*Rapport de guerre des Etats-UNis.*Les raideurs de Doolitle qui bombardèrente Tokyo. Date anniversaire.-Bande-Annonce cinémaEn VO sous-titrée. A noter la différence de couleurs avec le film. Ici dans la BA les couleurs sont plus vives.-wwwfox-france.comInfo pour se connecter

Le versioni viste in TV hanno l'audio totalmente in italiano..... Questo DVD in italiano ha solo l'audio degli americani, gli altri hanno sottotitoli che distraggono dovendoli leggere