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Movie Review: 'Tora! Tora! Tora!'

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(C)  2012 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) Director of American Sequences: Richard Fleischer Directors of Japanese Sequences: Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda Screenplay by: Larry Forrester, Hideo Oguni, and Ryuzu Kikushima Based on: The Broken Seal by Ladislas Farago and Tora! Tora! Tora! by Gordon W. Prange Starring: Martin Balsam, So Yamamura, Jason Robards, Joseph Cotton, Tatsuya Mihashi, E.G. Marshall, Takahiro Tamura, James Whitmore. Eijiro Tono, Wesley Addy On September 23, 1970, 20th Century Fox released Tora! Tora! Tora!, a $20 million docudrama about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Naval Base and other military bases on the island of Oahu. Conceived by studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck in the mid-1960s as an epic follow-up to The Longest Day, his successful 1962 recreation of the Normandy invasion on D-Day (June 6, 1944), it received a warmer reception in Japan than it did in American movie houses or in the eyes of contem