Better yet, read the book I referenced above - it won the Pulitzer Prize and you won't be able to put it down - and you will be spellbound by this movie knowing all the background and reasons for the Japanese attack, and all the details about the characters. If you're interested in the story, the "why", and figures involved in this historic event, definitely see Tora! Tora! Tora!. If you're looking for great special effects, and not much substance, see Pearl Harbor. And a lot of the acting is pretty wooden. But hey, it was 1970, this is before Star Wars even. Some of the models used are kind of cheesy, but some are actually pretty good. Technically as a film though, it has limitations. I loved how the Japanese directed the Japanese parts and vice versa for the Americans. Throughout, it was accurate even down to the exact wording of communications and quotes from the various people involved. The book describes how the pilots in crews of three, zoomed down over the mountains behind the city, over the pier, and dropped torpedoes at a breakwater 300 yards away.
He goes off to fight with the RAF, and gets shot down. Once Rafe manages a date with army nurse Evelyn (Kate Beckinsale), they fall in love.
Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett play two childhood friends, Rafe and Danny, both US Army Air Corps pilots in the months before the US enters World War II. This is a great movie and immaculately accurate down to the last detail, such as how the Japanese trained for the attack on Pearl Harbor at Kagoshima City on Ryukyu Island. Pearl Harbor is a 2001 film directed by Michael Bay. I just finished reading a great book on the history of Japan in the Second World War, "Rising Sun" by John Toland, and decided to watch Tora! Tora! Tora! again.
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