![]() Tamon Yamaguchi ( Toshiro Mifune) receives orders to attack Pearl Harbor. ![]() When diplomatic negotiations in Washington fail, the task force commander, Adm. On 1 December 1941, a Japanese fleet of 30 warships sails for Hawaii. Koji Kitami (Yosuke Natsuki) is a young Japanese bombardier, stationed aboard the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu. Some special effects scenes were later incorporated as stock footage in the 1976 film Midway (which also stars Toshirō Mifune). Storm Over the Pacific was released in 1961 in the United States in a dubbed and abridged 98 minute version produced by Hugo Grimaldi as I Bombed Pearl Harbor. ![]() ![]() It was made in 1960 by many of the same individuals behind the Godzilla franchise, such as producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya, and assistant special effects director Teruyoshi Nakano. Storm Over the Pacific is the first color widescreen war film from Toho Studios. Koji Kitami (Yosuke Natsuki) stationed aboard the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu and his participation in two battles in the Pacific during World War II, the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway. The story is an account of a young Japanese bombardier, Lt. Storm Over the Pacific ( ハワイ・ミッドウェイ大海空戦 太平洋の嵐, Hawai Middouei daikaikusen: Taiheiyo no arashi ) (literally, Hawaii-Midway Battle of the Sea and Sky: Storm in the Pacific Ocean) is a 1960 color ( Eastmancolor) Japanese film directed by Shūe Matsubayashi.
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