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from Bob Marr:
... If this is the way they think in the West Coast I would start heading back East as soon as possible. The next civil war will be the East against the West and we all know that the new West coast will be the Mississippi River and we will make sure all Western Politicians wear leaking life preservers

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Uhhhh.... I don't know about that, Bob. We've got a whole bunch of subs & carriers around here, & the shipyards to keep 'em running. It's far more likely that when your hypothetical war's over, all broadcast stations in the US will start with "K"!

Seriously though... I've seen the movie several times over the years. I didn't know about the collaboration that Claude speaks of... but now that makes sense.... since I recall being intrigued that either side would make a film with the amount of balance this one seemed to have.

It's unfortunate how rampant (rabid) political correctness seems to thrive... frequently in parts of California.

Forget about San Pedro... you can run that show in my theatre.

At this point, they'd probably never get a permit for such a thing, but wouldn't that just be the ultimate

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I recall when my partner was faced with the unpleasant executive task of firing Akira Kurosawa from Tora! Tora! Tora! and trying to replace him with another Japanese director. No one would accept the assignment. No one at all. Crass Hollywood-a Zanuck, at that-had defiled a national shrine, a living monument, and all Japan turned its back in silence.

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From the book The Films of Akira Kurosawa, by Donald Richie:

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[He] signed a contract with Twentieth Century Fox to film the Japanese sequences of a flabby epic, Tora! Tora! Tora! The struggle to work on that film, complicated by the tampering of the American studio then headed by Darryl F. Zanuck, so utterly demoralized and exhausted Kurosawa that he was finally driven to sabotage his own work. News leaked that Kurosawa was shooting scenes only to decide that the sets had to be another color and all the footage re-shot. His motive was clearly to provoke Fox into openly firing him and thus to avoid responsibility for contractual liability, though which he could otherwise be blamed for failure to live up to their agreement.

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Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasuku took over the reigns.

Ja ne,

I'm about as far west as you can get in the continental U.S., about 500 yards from the ocean, and I don't think that way. Ya gotta remember that's California (where I was raised but am hesitant to mention) where weird laws and decisions are made by weird politicians and judges.

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