Entertainment Weekly, 06/08/2001, p.54, "...The film glories in its Panavision sweep, from its full-length shots of battleships at sea to its artfully composed formations of Japanese fighter planes..."
New York Times, 05/23/2006, p.E5, "[The] film now seems strikingly modern and mature."
Total Film, 02/01/2007, p.124, 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] scrupulously authentic recreation of the build-up to Pearl Harbor..."
Uncut, 02/01/2007, p.106, 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he work of seasoned pulp directors Richard Fleischer and future BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY man Kinji Fukasaku keeps things taut."
DVD Features:
2-Disc Set
Audio:
Dolby Surround 4.1 - English/Japanese
Dolby Surround - English/Japanese
Mono - French
Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
Disc 1: TORA! TORA! TORA! - Widescreen Version
Widescreen - 2.35
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - Richard Fleischer & Stewart Galbraith - Director & Japanese Film Historian
Documentary - DAY OF INFAMY
Disc 2: TORA! TORA! TORA! - Bonus Material
Additional Release Material:
Featurette - 1. "TORA! TORA! TORA!: A Giant Awakes"
2. TORA! TORA! TORA! (21-min.)
3. "Now It Can Be Shown"
Additional Footage - 1. Movietone News: The 1st Pictures of the Attack
2. Movietone News: Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
3. Movietone News: A Year of War Since Pearl Harbor
4. Movietone News: War with Japan
5. Movietone News: U.S Declares War on Japan
6. Movietone News: 1st Pictures of Attack on Japan Islands
7. Movietone News: Jap Cities Were Bombed By U.S. Army Planes
8. Movietone News: President Honors "Jimmy" Dolittle For Raid on Japan
9. Movietone News: War Reports Of The United Nations
10. Movietone News: Doolittle's Raiders, Who Bombed Tokyo, Mark Anninversary
Trailer - 1. Theatrical Trailer
2. THE LONGEST DAY
3. PATTON
Includes All-New Documentary
Includes All-New Documentary
A Japanese-American co-production, director Richard Fleischer (SOYLENT GREEN) and two Japanese directors put together this ultrarealistic account of the bombing of Pearl Harbor as presented from the perspectives of both nations, as diplomatic tensions rise between the two countries. While the Japanese military plans its attack on American military installations, the American forces nearly stumble into a much greater calamity due to a series of errors and mistakes. As the two sides plunge closer to war, the tension escalates until the final, spectacular air raid, the most realistic ever filmed. This ITA award winner has a fabulous cast, including Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Jason Robards, James Whitmore, and E.G. Marshall.