Eagle of the Pacific
Eagle of the Pacific | |
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Directed by | Ishirō Honda |
Written by | Shinobu Hashimoto |
Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka Sojiro Motoki |
Starring | Denjirō Ōkōchi |
Music by | Yūji Koseki |
Distributed by | Toho |
Release date | October 21, 1953 (Japan) |
Running time | 119 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Eagle of the Pacific (太平洋の鷲, Taiheiyo no washi), also known as Operation Kamikaze, is a 1953 Japanese war epic 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][2]
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.[3]
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 of the Pacific grossed 163 million yen, the third highest total for a Japanese film in 1953.[4]
Release[]
The film was released on DVD in Japan in 2005.[5]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Brothers, Peter (2009). Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men: The Fantastic Cinema of Ishiro Honda. AuthorHouse. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-4490-2771-1.
- ^ "太平洋の鷲". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ^ Ragone, August (2007). Eiji Tsuburaya: master of monsters : defending the earth with Ultraman, Godzilla, and friends in the golden age of Japanese science fiction film. Chronicle Books. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-8118-6078-9.
- ^ Igarashi, Yoshikuni (2000). Bodies of memory: narratives of war in postwar Japanese culture, 1945-1970. Princeton University Press. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-691-04912-0.
- ^ Taiheiyō no washi (DVD video, 2005) [WorldCat.org]. WorldCat.org. OCLC 317586832.
External links[]
- Eagle of the Pacific at IMDb
- Eagle of the Pacific at Japanesegiants.com.
- Japanese-language films
- 1953 films
- Japanese films
- World War II aviation films
- Japanese black-and-white films
- Films directed by Ishirō Honda
- Films produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Toho films
- Cultural depictions of Isoroku Yamamoto
- Japanese drama films
- 1953 drama films