8/27/2019 Storm Over The Pacific 1960 Youtube
Running time 118 minutes Country Japan Language Japanese Storm Over the Pacific ( ハワイ・ミッドウェイ大海空戦 太平洋の嵐, Hawai Middouei daikaikusen: Taiheiyo no arashi) (literally, Hawaii-Midway Battle of the Sea and Sky: Storm in the Pacific Ocean) is a 1960 color directed. The story is an account of a young Japanese bombardier, Lt.
Koji Kitami (Yosuke Natsuki) stationed aboard the Japanese aircraft carrier and his participation in two battles in the Pacific during, the and the. Storm Over the Pacific is the first color widescreen war film from. It was made in 1960 by many of the same individuals behind the franchise, such as producer, special effects director, and assistant special effects director. Storm Over the Pacific was released in 1961 in the United States in a dubbed and abridged 98 minute version produced by Hugo Grimaldi as I Bombed Pearl Harbor. Some special effects scenes were incorporated as stock footage in the 1976 film (which also stars ).
Contents. Plot In 1941, Lt. Koji Kitami (Yosuke Natsuki) is a young Japanese bombardier, stationed aboard the Japanese aircraft carrier. On 1 December 1941, a Japanese fleet of 30 warships sails for Hawaii. When diplomatic negotiations in Washington fail, the task force commander, Adm.
Isoroku Yamaguchi receives orders to attack Pearl Harbor. On 7 December 7, the surprise attack is carried out successfully. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Koji returns to Japan and his childhood sweetheart, Keiko.
Although deeply in love with Keiko, Koji fears that marriage will make him less worthy as a naval officer. His faith in his leaders and his country remains strong through the successful campaigns of the early war, but is severely shaken by the disastrous events during the Battle of Midway, learning that reports back to the homeland are lies.
In the battle, his carrier Hiryu is attacked by U.S. Dive bombers and badly damaged. High-ranking officers order the ship abandoned, but rather than leave it as a prize of war, a Japanese destroyer is given instructions to sink the carrier. As the Hiryu goes down, Koji and others give a final salute.
Cast Actor Role Lt. Koji Kitami Lt. Tomonari Keiko Tosaku Hiryu Captain Officer Pilot Production Film historian Stephen Pendo in Aviation in the Cinema (1985) noted Storm Over the Pacific heavily utilized models to create realistic battle scenes. The special effects were supervised by who was renown for his work in numerous 1950s and 1960s Japanese horror and Science Fiction films.
During his 50-year career as a special effects director, Tsuburaya worked on approximately 250 films in total. In World War II, Tsuburaya had created the realistic attack scenes in ( The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya) (1942) that depicted the Pearl Harbor attacks. The same model scene was reprised for Storm Over the Pacific. Tsuburaya and his special effects team created 136 ship models for Storm Over the Pacific, including and aircraft carriers, 11 and 13 metres respectively. The 1/16th scale models of ships were shot in a large water tank.
The miniature photography in Storm Over the Pacific was subsequently re-used in a number of later films, (1968), (1976) and in another Japanese film, The Imperial Navy (1981). Reception When Storm Over the Pacific was released, it met with critical approvals and was widely recognized as 'telling the other side' or giving the Japanese perspective of World War II in the Pacific. Film historians Jack Hardwick and Ed Schnepf, however, dismissed the English version, I Bombed Pearl Harbor as poorly dubbed and with the predominance of 'miniatures', as a pallid rival to (1970). References Notes. Anderson, Joseph L. The Japanese Film: Art and Industry. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1982.
Hardwick, Jack and Ed Schnepf. 'A Viewer's Guide to Aviation Movies'. The Making of the Great Aviation Films, General Aviation Series, Volume 2, 1989. Pendo, Stephen. Aviation in the Cinema. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1985. Ragone, August.
San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books, 2014, first edition 2007. Tam, King-fai, Timothy Y. Tsu and Sandra Wilson, eds.
Takeo Kunihiro
Chinese and Japanese Films on the Second World War. London: routledge, 2014. External links. at the. on.
Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Midway.
Toho's first major color war film is without a doubt one of the most impressive of their many 60's offerings. The only one I can think of this easily trumps this is their later BATTLE OF THE SEA OF JAPAN (1969) which is about the Russo-Japanese War. This is a world war 2 film and probably the quintessential film covering the two largest, most pivotal events of the Pacific theater - Pearl Harbor and Midway. These battles would be covered in several later American films but never with the gusto of this production. This presentation of the Pacific Theater is a little different than us Westerners are used to.
There's something shockingly surreal about seeing the main characters elatedly cheering the destruction of the Arizona, or referring to December 7th, 1941 as 'a wonderful day'. Unlike German or Italian war films to come over the years after the war, this film by a former Axis member is not a guilt-ridden depressing condemnation of the past. Instead, the Japanese (many of the cast and crew members were veterans of the conflict) seem to be quite proud of their effort, camaraderie, and achievements. The attack on Pearl Harbor is shown as a more-or-less unavoidable battle and a great victory. Little attention is paid to the fact that the Americans are totally oblivious to the fact they're at war before the bombs drop.
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The Americans are actually rarely mentioned by name, only as 'the enemy' and never seen besides their planes, ships, and ground installations. Little can be said about this movie without mentioning the brilliant effects work by Eiji Tsuburaya and Teruyoshi Nakano. Tsuburaya had made some of Japan's most impressive propaganda films during the war which recreated the Pearl Harbor attack, and here he gets to do the same but in color and with more money and a larger water tank. The 1/16th scale models look brilliant and the explosions and fires realistic enough for MIDWAY to steal 16 years later. Dramatically the film comes off as a little stiff, though Natsuki gives an earnest performance as a young pilot. Mifune plays Yamagouchi with his usual gravitas, and many recognizable Toho stock performers pop up in small roles throughout. The film also suffers from its no-frills straight-forward retelling approach (much like the earlier film THE MYSTERIANS) which means there's not really any subplots or plot twists.
Just action, effects, and historical reenactments to provide entertainment. It also suffers a lot of the same failings as other Toho films of the time with the tendency to reuse effects shots (sometimes twice in a row), lots of jump cuts (such as an explosion goes off, then another, but the camera does not move despite a lot of time being cut out between the two explosions), and a few dodgy miniatures. The real star is the battle scenes; not just the brief Pearl Harbor recreation, but the drawn out Midway battle that takes up the whole second half of the film. Excellent music, cinematography, and wholly believable process shots. Overall a thoroughly impressive war film which is unfairly hard to find.
Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Midway. A translations.
Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Midway. Moviehdkh.com does not host any content on it own server and just linking to or embedding content that was uploaded to popular Online Video hosting sites like dailymotion.com, Google Drive, other cloudy, blog and such sites.
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