Critical Analysis of Tora! Tora! Tora!

            Q: Is Tora! Tora! Tora! a historical film in relevance to the beginnings of the Pacific war and the attack on Pearl Harbour?.
             It has almost been 62 years since the attack on Pearl Harbour. Since then, many have grieved, many have found hope in eventual victory, and many have attempted to create a lasting memory of the fateful attack. One such attempt was that of documentary director Richard Fleischer in 1970, detailing the events leading up to and the attack on Pearl Harbour. Named Tora! Tora! Tora!, the film was made in two separate parts - involving an American script and a Japanese script. .
             Each script depicted different events surrounding the attack through each other's eyes and made an excellent attempt at producing a balanced opinion of what happened in 1941. The film was also created in two separate parts, with Japanese Directors Kinji Fukasaku & Toshio Masuda filming the Japanese script and Richard Fleischer filming the American script. In the end it was all put together and created an account which balanced participant perspective in a way unlike anything seen before in film history.
             Unfortunately, putting together a filmic narrative isn't all one has to do to create an a classic memory of a period. Historians have grappled with the film's narrative and taken it apart bit by bit, checking each individual fact, researching to see if it is in fact historically accurate. .
             One way to do this is to compare it to other attempts at historical accuracy. The film Pearl Harbour (2000) is an excellent source for comparison, because it seems to be overloaded with falsehoods and exaggerations that are the trademarks of modern day Hollywood.
             Pearl Harbour, like Titanic, didn't seem to focus on the story and events much but rather concentrated on individuals, which we don't know even existed. In this sense, the narrative related to a mythos, a type of truth which spoke to generalities rather than particulars.