DVD
Tora! Tora! Tora! [videorecording] / Twentieth Century Fox presents ; an Elmo Williams-Richard Fleischer production ; screenplay by Larry Forrester, Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima ; directed by Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku ; produced by Elmo Williams ; Japanese sequences directed by Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku.
A dramatization chronicling the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.
Record details
- Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (144 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches.
- Edition: 2-disc special edition.
- Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2006]
- Copyright: ©1970
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from container. Based on the books: Tora! Tora! Tora! / by Gordon W. Prange, and: The broken seal / by Ladislas Farago. Originally released as a motion picture in 1970. Program notes on container insert include an essay by film critic and historian Tom Weaver. Special features (disc 1): Optional commentary by director Richard Fleischer & Japanese film historian Stuart Galbraith IV; "Day of Infamy" documentary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (20 min.); original theatrical trailer (4 min.). Special features (disc 2): "History behind the lens Tora! Tora! Tora!: A giant awakes" documentary of the historical facts behind the film (90 min.); "Hollywood Backstories: Tora! Tora! Tora!" AMC making-of featurette (22 min.); "Movietone news" film clips of events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor, including "First Pictures of Jap Attack on Hawaii" (2 min.), "Now it can be shown" (9 min.), "A year of war since Pearl Harbor" (7 min.), "War with Japan" (7 min.), "U.S. declares war on Japan" (5 min.), "First pictures of Navy attack on Jap Islands" (3 min.), "Jap cities were bombed by U.S. Army planes" (1 min.), "President honors 'Jimmy' Doolittle for raid on Japan" (3 min.), "War reports of the United Nations" (2 min.), "Doolittle's raiders, who bombed Tokyo, mark anniversary" (1 min.), "Behind-the-scenes" production still gallery; "Production gallery" of cast and set stills; original theatrical trailer (4 min.). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Disc 1. Tora! Tora! Tora! (DVD). Disc 2. Bonus disc (DVD). |
| Creation/Production Credits Note: | Directors of photography, S[h]insaku Himeda, Masamichi Satoh, Osami Furuya, Charles F. Wheeler ; editors, James E. Newcom, Pembroke J. Herring, Inoue Chikaya; music, Jerry Goldsmith. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Martin Balsam, Soh Yamamura, Joseph Cotten, Tatsuya Mihashi, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Takahiro Tamura, Eijiro Tono, Jason Robards. |
| Target Audience Note: | Canadian Home Video Rating: PG. MPAA rating: G. |
| System Details Note: | DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 4.1, Dolby Digital 3.0, Dolby Digital 1.0. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | For private home use only. |
| Language Note: | Audio track in English, French, with optional subtitles in English, Spanish, captions in English. |
| Awards Note: | Academy Awards, USA, 1970: Oscar - Best Effects, Special Visual Effects (A.D. Flowers, L.B. Abbott) |
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| Subject: | Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Hawaii > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Action and adventure films. Feature films. Historical films. War films. |
