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3 unusual facts about Tora! Tora! Tora!


Hanauma Bay

Hawaii-themed films and television shows, including Blue Hawaii, Paradise, Hawaiian Style, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Hawaii Five-O, and Magnum, P.I., shot footage at the bay.

Nakajima B5N

Replicas of the B5N2s were made from U.S. North American T-6 Texan trainers, and Aichi D3A dive bombers were created using BT-13 Valiant training aircraft, which were modified to represent Japanese aircraft for the movie Tora! Tora! Tora!, and have been used in a number of movies and airshows since to depict the aircraft.

Truman H. Landon

In the film Tora! Tora! Tora!, about the attack on Pearl Harbor, Landon was portrayed by actor Norman Alden.


Alleged plot against Ratu Iloilo, 2000

Rejecting Tora's attack, Army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Orisi Rabukawaqa said that Commodore Bainimarama had the full support of his troops.

Bop Doo-Wopp

Songs from these concerts were also released in 1996 on their album "Man-Tora! Live in Tokyo".

Etsuko Shihomi

She met singer-actor Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi on the set of the Otoko wa Tsurai yo film Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy (1986), and retired from acting after marrying him the following year.

Fumie Kashiyama

She has also performed in other television dramas and comedy films such as the role of Reiko in Tora-san, the Intellectual.

In the Forests of the Night

She has a strong understanding and friendship with a Bengal tiger she named Tora.

Fearing Aubrey, but not letting it on, she burns the note and leaves it where Aubrey can find it, and does not visit the Bengal tiger which she has named Tora, in fear that Aubrey would use Tora to hurt her.

Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote

Randall Wallace, the screenwriter of the 2001 film Pearl Harbor, readily admitted that he copied the line from Tora! Tora! Tora! The director of Tora! Tora! Tora!, Richard Fleischer, stated that while Yamamoto may never have said those words, the film's producer, Elmo Williams, had found the line written in Yamamoto's diary.

Joseph Grew

In the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, an historical drama about the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, the part of US Ambassador Joseph Grew was played by Meredith Weatherby.

Stuart Galbraith IV

He provided audio commentary (with director Richard Fleischer) for the Special Edition DVD of Tora! Tora! Tora!, and interviewed Oscar-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond for his audio commentary track for The Sadist.

The Boudoir Diplomat

It was co-directed by George Melford (who would become famous for his work on the legendary 1931 Spanish-language version of Dracula) with Enrique Tovar Ávalos, and stars Miguel Faust Rocha, Lia Torá and Celia Montalván.

Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy

Perhaps the most notable aspect of the film is that the co-star, Etsuko Shihomi, was the star of the Sister Street Fighter series.

Tora-san's Forbidden Love

He notes that it benefits from an opening dream-sequence satire of kaiju eiga, or monster films, with footage from Shochiku's entry in this genre, The X from Outer Space, employed.


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