The film retells of the Pearl Harbor attack details everything in the days that led up to that tragic moment in American history as well as the series of American blunders that allowed it to happen.
13 October 1914, New York City, New York, USA
6 November 1917, Los Angeles County, California, USA
19 July 1939, Tokyo, Japan
27 December 1917, Mississippi, USA
19 June 1917, Paducah, Kentucky, USA
27 August 1916, Canada
15 September 1904, Kanagawa, Japan
31 December 1928, The Bronx, New York, USA
16 November 1932, Los Angeles County, California, USA
6 April 1898, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
31 August 1928, Kyoto City, Japan
January 1, 1908 in Ottoman Empire
24 September 1943
3 June 1940, Oakland, California, USA
October 24, 1911 in California, USA
8 January 1912, Fukuoka, Japan
26 July 1922, Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 June 1905, Cecilia, Kentucky, USA
15 May 1905, Petersburg, Virginia, USA
September 12, 1937 in Keokuk, Iowa, USA
22 June 1920, Chicago, Illinois, USA
15 July 1910, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
8 August 1926, Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
24 August 1923, Dayton, Ohio, USA
1 April 1923, New York City, New York, USA
17 January 1936, Rochester, New York, USA
13 September 1924, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
20 November 1917, Hokkaido, Japan
3 January 1908, Concho, Arizona, USA
December 20, 2012
Prior to "Tora!" movies showing the attack were jingoistic propaganda; afterwards, the attack was an excuse to indulge in Hollywood's fascination with American self-loathing.
May 09, 2005
As history, it seems a fairly accurate account of what happened, although it never much bothers its head about why. As film art, it is nothing less than a $25-million irrelevancy.
October 23, 2004
Tora! Tora! Tora! is one of the deadest, dullest blockbusters ever made.
July 08, 2008
Both overall director Richard Fleischer and his Japanese counterparts do a dull job, and the monotonously low-key tone of scene after scene almost suggests that each was filmed without a sense of ultimate slotting in the finished form.
February 24, 2002
It's rare for a feature film to attain the trifecta of entertaining, informing, and educating.
December 29, 2011
The film looks gorgeous in HD, and remains the best Hollywood treatment of Pearl Harbor.
December 20, 2011
an interesting footnote in cinema history... though it's no less propaganda than the flag wavers from the 1940s
May 15, 2012
The Japanese sneak attack that plunged the US into WW II is lavishly and fairly accurately, if not enthrallingly, brought to the screen.
May 15, 2012
Expensive but ultimately rather empty.
December 15, 2011
Strictly for history buffs only, because it presents the story in the most dry way possible. It's like a History Channel re-enactment with all of the right aircraft carriers and airplanes.
June 24, 2006
The climax, in particular, manages to be more than just a shoot-out, with Fleischer's intelligent direction generating a real feeling of chaos and apocalypse.
July 28, 2015
Directors Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda have infused Tora! Tora! Tora! with an excessively dry and deliberate pace that results in an almost interminable first hour...
