Bought a copy of Tora Tora Tora on Blu-ray and I'm watching it as I write this. So far, it is a visual feast. Picture is clear, crisp and looks like a totally new movie. There are numerous extras with it, plus you have a choice of watching the original theatrical version or the extended Japanese version, which is what I'm watching. It comes in a book style version that has pictures and text of the making of it and a brief biography of four of the actors, the two Japanese actors who played Yamamoto & Genda(the architect of the attack), and on Martin Balsam & Jason Robards Jr. who played Adm Kimmel & Gen. Short respectively.
Posts from WaynamoJim in thread „Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)“
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Hi Redcap, that is true about the Japanese kids being tought wrong. I was actually in contact for some months, with a Japanese Reporter from Nagasaki? who was asking me for help on researching some pacific battles I never had heard of because he was working on a Documentary about those battles. I was trying to help him get in touch with American Vets who took part in those battles. Anyway, this reporter told me he was wanting to get the full truth out to the Japanese public, about what really happened in WWII, instead of what their revisionist teachers actually taught in classrooms. I really do hope he did as he said he was going to do.
Don't know if this true but, some years back, I heard or read somewhere that the Japanese were telling their school kids that the reason they attacked Pearl Harbor was because we dropped the A-Bomb on them. Maybe they're trying to convince them that Emperor Hirohito, being a god, was able to forsee the A-Bomb attacks and needed to strike first. -
The B-17 you mentioned as being stored at the Yankee Air Force Museum in Ypsilanti, Mi is only a few miles from where I live. I've been in that plane a few times at the air shows they have. It's a real treat to walk through it since, it's been completely restored and flies regularly. I've never flown on it, though. Too expensive, $400 for a ride on it. Every once in awhile, you can see it flying over our area. There's no mistaking the drone of those four big engines. The plane is now called The Yankee Lady. About three yrs ago, the Yankee Museum was destroyed in a fire. The B-17 was pushed out of the hangar in time but, a few planes that were in the process of being restored, along with numerous military artifacts were destroyed. They still have their air shows, though, with the money taken in going towards rebuilding the museum.
