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Is Tora! Tora! Tora! a Christmas movie?

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No, but I think that it's one of the better war movies out there. Not a lot of emphasis on action, but you'll learn a lot about the decision-making that went into Pearl Harbor, and having people from both the Japanese and American side working on it was, I think, a good idea. Helps keep it from devolving into a simplistic morality story.

EDIT: Note that it was made before American historians figured out that Mitsuo Fuchida had a tendency to self-aggrandize and wasn't always terribly accurate. The bit with Fuchida arguing for a third wave of attacks woudn't be in a modern Tora! Tora! Tora!.