Eagle of the Pacific


Eagle of the Pacific a.k.a. Operation Kamikaze is a 1953 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Ishirō Honda. The film dramatizes the start of Japan's military action in World War II, with an emphasis on the role of Isoroku Yamamoto.

Cast

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intended Eagle of the Pacific to be an ambitious, Hollywood-style 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.

Reception

Eagle in the Pacific grossed 163 million yen, the third highest total for a Japanese film in 1953.

Release

The film was released on DVD in Japan in 2005.