Eagle of the Pacific
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| File:Taiheiyo no washi poster.jpg
Original Japanese movie poster
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| Directed by | Ishirō Honda |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka Sojiro Motoki |
| Written by | Shinobu Hashimoto |
| Starring | Denjirō Ōkōchi |
| Music by | Yūji Koseki |
| Distributed by | Toho |
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Release dates
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October 21, 1953 (Japan) |
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Running time
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119 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Eagle of the Pacific (太平洋の鷲 Taiheiyo no washi?) aka Operation Kamikaze is a 1953 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Ishirō Honda. The film dramatizes the start of Japan's military action in World War II, with an emphasis on the role of Isoroku Yamamoto.[1]
Cast
- Denjirō Ōkōchi - Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
- Hiroshi Nihonyanagi - Commander Furukawa
- Eijirô Yanagi - Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
- Minoru Takada - Prince Fumimaro Konoe
- Ichiro Sugai - Admiral Koshirō Oikawa
- Toshiro Mifune - First Lieutenant Tomonaga
Also starring:
Production
Toho intended Eagle of the Pacific to be an ambitious, Hollywood-style film. The studio used storyboarding to plan the visual effects sequences, a technique they would repeat on Godzilla.[2]
One scene required a Zero fighter plane and its pilot to catch fire. The pilot was played by a stuntman named Haruo Nakajima, who Honda later cast as Godzilla.[1]
Reception
Eagle in the Pacific grossed 163 million yen, the third highest total for a Japanese film in 1953.[3]
Release
The film was released on DVD in Japan in 2005.[4]
References
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Eagle of the Pacific at IMDb
- Eagle of the Pacific at Japanesegiants.com.
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