A. D. Flowers is perhaps most known for his work on a film based on what Japanese attack?
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A. D. Flowers A. D. Flowers (February 22, 1917July 1, 2001) was an American special effects artist who was perhaps best known for his work on "Tora! Tora! Tora!". For which he won an Academy Award. He also "created memorable scenes" for the films "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now".
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Tora! Tora! Tora! Tora! Tora! Tora! (Japanese: トラ・トラ・トラ ) is a 1970 Japanese-American war film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku and stars an ensemble cast, including Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Sō Yamamura, E. G. Marshall, James Whitmore, and Jason Robards.
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Darwin Raid Darwin Raid may refer to various World War II Japanese air attacks against Darwin, Australia, between 19 February 1942 and 2 May 1943, most notably:
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Deep Throat in Tokyo Deep Throat in Tokyo (東京ディープスロート夫人 , Tōkyō Diipu Surōto Fujin ) is a 1975 Japanese "pink film" directed by Kan Mukai. It has a reputation as being the prolific director's "most notorious feature" and best known film.
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Bombing of Nagaoka The bombing of Nagaoka (長岡空襲 , Nagaoka kūshū ) took place on the night of 1 August 1945, as part of the strategic bombing campaign waged by the United States against military and civilian targets and population centers in the Japan home islands during the closing stages of World War II. Between 65.5 and 80 percent of the urban area of Nagaoka was destroyed during the bombing.
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Counter-Attack Counter-Attack is a 1945 war film starring Paul Muni and Marguerite Chapman as two Russians trapped in a collapsed building with seven enemy German soldiers during World War II. It was adapted from the Broadway play "Counterattack" by Janet and Philip Stevenson, which was in turn based on the play "Pobyeda" by Mikhail Ruderman and Ilya Vershinin.
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Devilman (film) Devilman is a 2004 Japanese action film directed by Hiroyuki Nasu. It is based on the manga series "Devilman".
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Hawai Mare oki kaisen Hawai Mare oki kaisen (ハワイ・マレー沖海戦 ) , literally: "The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya", is a 1942 black-and-white Japanese war film directed by Kajiro Yamamoto and made during the Second World War.
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Hana-bi Hana-bi (はなび , HANA-BI ) , released in the United States as Fireworks, is a 1997 Japanese crime drama film written, directed and edited by Takeshi Kitano, who also stars in it. The film's score was composed by Joe Hisaishi in his fourth collaboration with Kitano. Hana-bi (花火 , Hanabi ) is the Japanese word for "fireworks."
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Japanese aircraft carrier Chitose Chitose (千歳 ) was a light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. First laid down as a seaplane tender in 1934 at Kure Navy yard, the ship originally carried Kawanishi E7K Type 94 "Alf" and Nakajima E8N Type 95 "Dave" floatplanes. Although it has been speculated that "Chitose" also carried Type A midget submarines, only her sister ship, "Chiyoda" had that capability. "Chitose" saw several naval actions, taking part in the Battle of Midway though seeing no combat there. She was bombed by B-17 Flying Fortresses off Davao, Philippines on 4 January 1942, sustaining negligible damage. She covered the Japanese landings in the East Indies and New Guinea from January–April 1942, and was damaged in the Eastern Solomons in August 1942.
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Red Angel Red Angel (Japanese title: 赤い天使, "Akai Tenshi") is a 1966 Japanese film directed by Yasuzo Masumura. It tells the story of a young Japanese nurse on the front lines in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It is based on a 1966 novel of the same name by Yorichika Arima ().
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Big Stink (aircraft) Big Stink – later renamed Dave's Dream – was a United States Army Air Forces Boeing B-29-40-MO Superfortress bomber (Victor number 90) that participated in the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945. Assigned to the 393d Bomb Squadron, 509th Composite Group, it was used as a camera plane in support of the bomb-carrying B-29 "Bockscar" to photograph the explosion and effects of the bomb, and also to carry scientific observers. The mission was flown by crew C-14 but with Group Operations Officer Major James I. Hopkins, Jr., as the aircraft commander.
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Daydream (1981 film) Daydream (白日夢 , "Hakujitsumu" ) (1981) is a Japanese film. A remake by director Tetsuji Takechi of his ground-breaking 1964 "pink film" of the same title, this film is considered the first hardcore theatrical release in Japan.
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The Harimaya Bridge The Harimaya Bridge is a 2009 film written and directed by American filmmaker Aaron Woolfolk. It was filmed in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan and San Francisco, California, U.S.A. The film had a nationwide theatrical release in Japan in 2009 and an independent theatrical release in the United States in 2010. The film was released on DVD in Japan at the end of 2009 and was released on DVD and video-on-demand in the United States in 2011.
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The Beast to Die The Beast To Die (野獣死すべし , Yajū shisubeshi ) is a 1980 Japanese thriller starring Yusaku Matsuda. It was directed by Toru Murakawa and produced by Haruki Kadokawa.
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Operation PX Operation PX was the codename for the Japanese plan for a biological terror attack on the U.S. west coast in World War II. The planned operation was abandoned due to the strong opposition of Chief of General Staff Yoshijirō Umezu, as well as the Japanese surrender following the atomic bombings and the Soviet declaration of war.
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Children of Hiroshima Children of Hiroshima (原爆の子 , Genbaku no Ko , lit. "Children of the Atomic Bomb") also released as Atom-Bombed Children in Hiroshima, is a 1952 Japanese feature film directed by Kaneto Shindo, a docudrama made with extreme emotions, having "the capacity to wound".
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The Human Bullet The Human Bullet (肉弾 , Nikudan ) is a 1968 Japanese film about Him (played by Minori Terada), a Japanese soldier during World War II who becomes assigned to a kamikaze mission against a U.S. battleship. It is an anti-war satire written and directed by Kihachi Okamoto.
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Senkichi Awaya Senkichi Awaya (粟屋 仙吉 , Awaya Senkichi , 7 November 1893 – 6 August 1945) was a Japanese public official who was killed by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima while he was its mayor. He was one of the key figures in the historic clash between the Japanese police and the Imperial Japanese Army in 1933. He is also known for his Christian activity in the Nonchurch movement and close relationship with its early leaders.
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Water Flower Water Flower (水の花 , Mizu no Hana ) is a Japanese film which was released on 5 August 2005.
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Tokyo Sonata Tokyo Sonata (トウキョウソナタ , Tōkyō Sonata ) is a 2008 film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It won the award for Best Film at the 3rd Asian Film Awards and received 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards nominations for Achievement in Directing and Best Screenplay. At the 2008 Cannes Film Festival it won the Jury Prize of the "Un Certain Regard" section.
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Design for Death Design for Death is a 1948 American documentary film that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It was based on a shorter U.S. Army training film, "Our Job in Japan", that had been produced in 1945–1946 for the soldiers occupying Japan after World War II. Both films dealt with Japanese culture and the origins of the war.