The Storm of the Pacific (1960) on Netflix
Lt. Koji Kitami is a bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force aboard an aircraft carrier. In 1941 his fleet sails for Hawaii, and he returns home to his childhood sweetheart, Keiko.
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Late in 1941, Lt. Koji Kitami serves as a bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force, stationed aboard an aircraft carrier. On 1 December a fleet of thirty warships sets out for Hawaii, and when negotiations in Washington break down, the task force commander, Adm. Tamon Yamaguchi, is told to strike Pearl Harbor. The raid goes ahead on 7 December. Kitami comes home to Japan and to Keiko, the sweetheart he has known since childhood. He loves her, yet he worries that taking a wife would make him a lesser naval officer. As Japan's campaigns in the Pacific bring one victory after another, he goes on fighting for the honor of his country.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Storm of the Pacific (1960)
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- Special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya and his team built 136 ship models for Storm Over the Pacific, among them the Japanese carrier Akagi and the USS Yorktown, measuring 11 and 13 metres. The 1/16th scale models were shot in a large water tank.
- Eiji Tsuburaya had made the realistic Pearl Harbor attack scenes for the 1942 Japanese film The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya during World War II, and the same model scene was reprised for Storm Over the Pacific.
- Some of Storm Over the Pacific's special effects scenes were later incorporated as stock footage in the 1976 film Midway, which also stars Toshirō Mifune.
