And I feel just the opposite.
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the very well chosen Japanese actors
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While I am a huge fan of Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, the actor who played Fuchida in
Tora! Tora! Tora! wasn't six feet tall and actually looked like Fuchida. On the other hand the actor who played Admiral Kimmel looked a lot more like the real thing than Martin Balsam did.
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and filmography. This whole scene gives me the chills whenever I watch it...even if at one part you can tell it's filmed from a modern US angled flat-top.
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That same complaint was made about
Tora! Tora! Tora!. Some things just can't be helped.
I can't put up the comparable scene from
Tora!, simply because there doesn't seem to be one on the internet anywhere. But trust me, you'll be amazed at how much the carrier launch scene was stolen and at how much better the original was, and still is.