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As a students of U.S. history I have recently watch Tora Tora Tora, a movie about war world II and the bombing of Pearl Harbor that the Japanese exceeded on waking up the “sleeping Giants”. The title of this film is made up of the code-words that were used by the Japanese to indicate that complete surprise, meaning “charge” or “attack”. I learned from this film that although a week before the American forces were warned and talked about an attack, when the time came on December 7th, the forces at Pear harbor were in denial and not prepared at all. They received limited warning of the increasing risk of aerial attack, which was better understood in Washington than in Honolulu. I learned all about the messages that they were waiting for and decoding from Japan at that time. Although this was the first attack on America with out declaring war, I found that Japan had meant to declare war thirty minutes before the attack.
This film was probably the best account of the attack on Pearl Harbor in my opinion. Though it is old and the effects are obviously fake, it has many true elements. It does not focus too much on the social parts, but more so on the battles and deciphering of messages. I liked the addition of the Morse code section. Not a lot of people knew that Morse code tapping was occurring. Probably the only thing I though could have been mentioned was how quickly the attack came on Pearl Harbor and the destruction of American communication lines. The Japanese Aircrafts had direct orders to destroy the lines of communication to prevent American aircrafts, which were better and more durable in flight, from organizing and flying back in retaliation. I think the filmmakers are just trying to illustrate the American people visually about the occurrences in Hawaii that morning.
Tora! Tora! Tora! a docu-drama telling the story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was not well received in America on its original release. Most pointed...