Tora! Tora! Tora! Opening Theme

This is one of my favourite movie themes, The opening titles to the original Pearl Harbor film; "TORA! TORA! TORA!" Composed by Jerry Goldsmith

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[masushan]

By the way, I'm very glad this movie has been remastered. I rented it when I lived in Japan and loved it. On a visit back to the US I bought an old videotape of it--wow, it had really deteriorated. The remastered dvd version is so crisp and beautiful, and the battle scenes are incredible. This is such a great movie!

[LoganDarkrider]

@masushan

You should watch the Blu-Ray edition of it thats even better and it has some small extended Japanese Scenes too, well worth the watch :)

[CaptainNomura]

I saw this as a kid in Las Vegas when it premiered. I was taken by the full scale battleship Nagato and all the aircraft replicas. The only major errors are when Yamamoto sat quietly during the battle when in real history he walked around nerviously, smoking a cigarette and was overjoyed when he heard about the success of the attack. He also never made the speech about the "sleeping giant", that's Hollywood myth.

[LoganDarkrider]

@CaptainNomura

Admiral Yamamoto was one of a very small minority of Japanese who knew full well that going to War with America would bring about the the Destruction of the Japanese Empire, and he was right. He knew deep down that Japan had lost the war from that day onwards. The Moral and spiritual strength of the Japanese could not contend with the material strength of the Allies.

[Bla31n]

One wonders how it would've been had David Lean and Akira Kurosawa had directed this movie?

[LoganDarkrider]

@Bla31n

If that were the case it would have been an absolute masterpiece methinks.

[xmfcnrx]

Jerry Goldsmith's take on the popular Japanese piece "Sakura'.

[AdmiralCSN]

@CaptainNomura Hollywood has long been in the habit of doing such things because they think that doing so boosts the drama of movies like this one. The speech George C. Scott gives at the start of "Patton" is another example; it is actually a collection of quotes from several different speeches that the general gave.

[AdmiralCSN]

@Bla31n Akira Kurosawa was the initial director of this movie, but he was fired early on for casting friends of his with little or no acting ability in key roles.

[catafox]

The WWII theme, and somehow the internal trash spy war in today's US were way lower than this one(Government dirty spy attacking citizen???)

[saifalibaba]

A MASTERPIECE !!!

[mozo7008]

Se nota la mezcla de la incidencia japonesa y el suspenso americano en esta magnífica composición de Jerry Goldsmith.

[SSHelios]

TIGER TIGER TIGER!

[phambo101]

A note found in a briefcase of a down Japanese pilot read: "Go to the devil you hell!!!"

[HipHopNobby]

The Partnership of The 3 Reich and Kaiser-Reich Japan sind Ungewöhnlich! =)

[mgwilliams1000]

@ButterscotchSentry Yes, as a 30 year Navy aviation vet (and a father and uncle who served in the pacific), "Pearl Harbor" was.... well disappointing. This movie takes both sides. Also, must read "At Dawn We Slept" by Gordon Prange. Even the junior officers of Japan's Navy did not want to 'instigate' war with the U.S.