Tora! Tora! Tora! Blu-ray
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Posted September 8, 2011 07:03 PM by Matthew Smith
20th Century Fox has announced the U.S. Blu-ray debut of the 1970 WWII drama Tora! Tora! Tora! The war epic, which was a Japanese/U.S. co-production, chronicles the attack on Pearl Harbor from both an American and a Japanese perspective. Richard Fleischer (Fantastic Voyage) helmed the American scenes while Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda took over for Akira Kurosawa to handle the Japanese sequences.
Though the film was an initial box office disappointment in the U.S., it performed well in Japan and has been profitable for Fox on home video. The film features American actors Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotton, E. G. Marshall and James Whitmore. Japanese actors include Soh Yamamura, Tatsuya Mihashi and Takahiro Tamura. The film was awarded with a special effects Oscar at the 43rd Academy Awards.
Tora! Tora! Tora! will hit Blu-ray in a digibook containing rare photos from the Fox archives. The release will include the Japanese cut of the film as well, which adds 10 additional minutes of runtime. Stay tuned for an update listing the complete assortment of special features.
A release date of December 6th, 2011 has been set, which is one day before the 70th Anniversary of the actual attack on Pearl Harbor. Expect pre-orders to be up on Amazon soon.
Though the film was an initial box office disappointment in the U.S., it performed well in Japan and has been profitable for Fox on home video. The film features American actors Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotton, E. G. Marshall and James Whitmore. Japanese actors include Soh Yamamura, Tatsuya Mihashi and Takahiro Tamura. The film was awarded with a special effects Oscar at the 43rd Academy Awards.
Tora! Tora! Tora! will hit Blu-ray in a digibook containing rare photos from the Fox archives. The release will include the Japanese cut of the film as well, which adds 10 additional minutes of runtime. Stay tuned for an update listing the complete assortment of special features.
A release date of December 6th, 2011 has been set, which is one day before the 70th Anniversary of the actual attack on Pearl Harbor. Expect pre-orders to be up on Amazon soon.