Tora! Tora! Tora! /

A dramatization chronicling the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Other Authors:	Williams, Elmo, 1913-, Fleischer, Richard, Forrester, Larry, 1924-1988, Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996, Kikushima, Ryūzō, 1914-1989, Masuda, Toshio, 1927-, Fukasaku, Kinji, Balsam, Martin, 1919-1996, Yamamura, Sō, 1910-2000, Cotten, Joseph, 1905-1994, Mihashi, Tatsuya, 1923-2004, Marshall, E. G., 1914-1998, Whitmore, James, 1921-2009, Tamura, Takahiro, Tōno, Eijirō, 1907-1994, Robards, Jason, Prange, Gordon W. (Gordon William), 1910-1980, Farago, Ladislas
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	English French
Language Notes:	Closed-captioned. In English or dubbed French; with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
Published:	Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2006]
Edition:	2-disc special ed.
Series:	Cinema classics collection.
Subjects:	Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 > Drama. World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Hawaii > Drama. War films. Historical films. Action and adventure films. Fiction films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Description
Summary:	A dramatization chronicling the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.
Item Description:	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. Settings menu includes THX Optimode audio and video settings assistant. 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.). Videorecording.
Physical Description:	2 videodiscs (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Format:	DVD; region 1; Dolby Digital 4.1 surround (English), Dolby surround (English), Dolby Digital mono (French), anamorphic widescreen format (2.35:1).
Audience:	MPAA rating: G.
Awards:	Academy Awards, USA, 1970: Oscar - Best Effects, Special Visual Effects (A.D. Flowers, L.B. Abbott).
Production Credits:	Directors of photography, Sinsaku Himeda, Masamichi Satoh, Osami Furuya, Charles F. Wheeler ; editors, James E. Newcom, Pembroke J. Herring, Inoue Chikaya; music, Jerry Goldsmith.