“Storm Over the Pacific” was released in the United States in 1961 – dubbed into English and shortened – and there it was called “I Bombed Pearl Harbor”. It was directed by Shue Matsubayashi, and its main actors include Yosuke Natsuki, Toshiro Mifune and Koji Tsuruta. This Japanese production released in color in 1960 focuses on the story of Lieutenant Koji Kitami, a bomber in the Imperial Navy of Japan who participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Battle of Midway, and is the first film to show the Japanese perspective. According to the ratings site Rotten Tomatoes, It has a 90% approval rating in specialized reviews and 84% in public ratings. The film has become a cinema classic, popular with fans and critics. I know premiere in 1953 and featured some of the most famous actors of the time: Montomgery Clift, Donnad Reed, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, and Frank Sinatra, among others. “From here to eternity” (1953, United States)īased on the novel written by James Jones, who fought in the US Army during World War II, “From Here to Eternity” is a romantic drama that tells the story of a group of soldiers at the Pearl Harbor base in the moments leading up to the attack.

Here are four hugely successful Japanese and American blockbusters dealing with this 80-year-old event. American actors Burt Lancaster and Montgomery Clift and Austrian-born director Fred Zinnemann talk between scenes on the set of the film “From Here to Eternity.” (Credit: Hulton Archive / Getty Images)

Storm over the pacific 1960