1970 · drama · war · action
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Directed by Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku, Richard Fleischer2h 24m1970
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 used 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.
Our read: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) (1970) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · war · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, extreme drama / war, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- extreme
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