Eagle of the Pacific
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Director Ishiro Honda Music director Yuji Koseki Cast Denjiro Okochi Language Japanese | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama, History, War Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka Duration Country Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date October 21, 1953 (Japan) Similar movies Related Ishiro Honda movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eagle of the Pacific (, Taiheiyo no washi) aka Operation Kamikaze is a 1953 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Ishiro Honda. The film dramatizes the start of Japans military action in World War II, with an emphasis on the role of Isoroku Yamamoto.
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Cast
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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.
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.
Reception
Eagle in the Pacific grossed 163 million yen, the third highest total for a Japanese film in 1953.
Release
The film was released on DVD in Japan in 2005.
References
Eagle of the Pacific WikipediaEagle of the Pacific IMDb