At the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, Richardson had reverted to his permanent rank of Rear Admiral and was assigned to the Navy General Board.
Unusually, the film was made by two almost independent units — an American unit directed by Richard Fleischer, and a Japanese unit directed by Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda. General Short's anti-sabotage precautions prove a disastrous mistake that allows the Japanese aerial forces to destroy aircraft on the ground easily.
If they had been lost at Pearl Harbor, it would have been much more catastrophic for the Americans. See the Wikipedia bios on both men for more details.Though an extremely small part of the movie, the 'incident' involving the yellow trainer biplane being overflown by all the Japanese planes right before their attack on Pearl Harbor -- was it real or a minor "funny" scene inserted into the movie.
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They are also directed to destroy their code machines after receiving the final message. They were cosmetically modified American designs. This article is very difficult to read.
No, it isn't pertinent, and I have deleted that paragraph. Tora! It is the word tiger.
The first was an aerial reconnaissance mission (Operation K) over Pearl Harbor to ascertain if the US carriers were there.
Could we have some verification, please? Acronyms were not even common usage until DURING WW2 and started by the Americans. Though this reduced the number of fighter aircraft available at Pearl Harbor, it may have saved the carriers.
He always had complete autonomy, and nobody would dare make a suggestion to Kurosawa about the budget, or shooting schedule, or anything like that.
Thanks. A fictionalized version of Yamamoto's death was portrayed in the "Admiral Yamamoto" redirects here.
The results, however, were simply a tedious collection of scenes that were basically no better than the first sequences shot, leaving the production with the little more than the realization that the Japanese portion of the production would have to be completely redone, and that Kurosawa was not the director they wanted or needed.
The "awaken a sleeping giant" quote both in Tora! Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote is a saying attributed to Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto regarding the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by forces of Imperial Japan.. The list also shows "Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet."
However, the resulting laborious rewrite and slow pace of principal photography again alarmed the US team and a second meeting was held in Hollywood, with Kurosawa again agreeing to make the script more amenable to an American audience. Kimmel was Commander-in-Chief, Pacific (not Commander-in-Chief, U.S Pacific Fleet). Bill Gates used parts of the quote in the opening of a major 12/07/95 speech that the Wall St. Journal called a "thinly veiled threat" to Microsoft's competitors.
FWIW, I invite comments and response as the editing process is starting.
That's why they have a cable TV series entitled History v Hollywood.The fictitious "sleeping giant" quote attributed to Yamamoto needs to be more than a footnote. Prompted by talented young officers such as In January 1941, Yamamoto went even further and proposed a radical revision of Japanese naval strategy.
as: "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." Um, can someone actually post a plot for this movie?
Admiral The First Air Fleet commenced preparations for the Pearl Harbor raid, solving a number of technical problems along the way, including how to launch torpedoes in the shallow water of Pearl Harbor and how to craft armor-piercing bombs by machining down battleship gun projectiles. It is an editorial comment inserted into the middle of a plot summary. Tora!, this film also features the sleeping giant quote.
The Soviet Union was flying MiG's (Mikoyan-Gurevich aircraft) by 1940. The decision to cast him adrift was fraught with peril, as 20th Century Fox had actually been sold on the premise that the epic would feature the work of the renowned Japanese director, and the initial "seed money" was tied directly to the involvement of Kurosawa. His daring plan for the Consequently, Yamamoto stayed in his post. To guard against failure, Yamamoto initiated two security measures. (User:Cg23sailor) Military acronyms were in common use by the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, and had been in common use since before the beginning of the 20th century.