ORIGINAL: Saburo Kurusu
In my very humble opinion the best movie about WW2 in the Pacific still remains "Tora Tora Tora"....... If they really could deliver something of that quality.... *sigh* But I doubt it! I still curse the day I went into a movie theater, watching The Movie That Shall Not Be Named! A horrible experience, absolutely scary and disgusting! I should have sued them for compensation because I couldn't recover from it up until today........ [8|]
I would completely agree with this. You might catch the odd "modern" ship hull & mast in the attack sequence, but it was beautifully done. The presentation of the Japanese side was very sympathetic, something I was surprised at when I first saw the film as an under-10 on its release.
From a British PoV the comparable movie would be Battle of Britain, filmed with plenty of period aircraft (IIRC the Spanish Air Force still had loads of He111s & Me109s!), and they actually blew up a Great War vintage aircraft hangar. No CGI in the late 60s [;)] Only slight fault was a minor plot of husband & wife RAF officers Christopher Plummer & Susannah York.
Both films featured pretty heavyweight stars in cameo roles: BoB had three knights (Olivier, Richardson & Redgrave) and plenty of high-ranking actors (Michael Caine, Kenneth More, Robert Shaw, etc.). Very like The Longest Day. I suspect now you would not be able to obtain that number of high-billing stars for one file... except for The Expendables!
Also liked the fact that the Japanese and Germans both spoke their native language with English subtitles.
[/center]
