Eagle of the Pacific

Eagle of the Pacific , Taiheiyo no washi? aka Operation Kamikaze is a 1953 blackandwhite Japanese film directed by Ishir Honda. The film dramatizes the start of Japans military action in World War II, with an emphasis on the role of Isoroku Yamamoto.

Toho intended Eagle of the Pacific to be an ambitious, Hollywoodstyle film. The studio used storyboarding to plan the visual effects sequences, a technique they would repeat on Godzilla.One scene required a Zero fighter plane and its pilot to catch fire. The pilot was played by a stuntman named Haruo Nakajima, who Honda later cast as Godzilla. ........

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