Jerry Goldsmith - Tora! Tora! Tora! - Soundtrack Music Suite 1970

[@paullewis2413]

My favourite war movie of all time. No stupid fake romance to interrupt the narrative, brilliant acting and cinematography and of course the incomparable Jerry Goldsmith's score. A winner all round.

[@jeremyabrams3644]

They don't waste time with romance. It keeps the focus on the events. I like that.

[@koontingchan460]

The theme music mixed with Japanese, Western music, its great

[@joeydoherty368]

@@koontingchan460 Jerry Goldsmith is a master!

[@theonemesis5217]

@@koontingchan460 What "western"?! Over here is apparent by a mile away that this was a "imperial Japanised" musical masterpiece!

[@markomark76]

The history must be impartial and free of sentimentalism because it must be objetive. TORA TORA TORA is not a simple movie it is an historical tale

[@michaellewis2484]

“You want your confirmation, take a look, there’s your confirmation”! Wonderful film. Superb acting.

[@STP43FAN1]

“Oklahoma. Capsized. Nevada. Taken a torpedo forward she is down by the Head. West Virginia. Subjected to at least six torpedo hits, several deck fires. Cruisers Raleigh, Helena, damaged and listing.”

[@szymonkowalowka8515]

​@@STP43FAN1"A California płonie po dwóch torpedach, właśnie z niej wracam"

[@hshager5548]

Probably Jerry Goldsmith's most underrated score. It made a great movie even better.

[@Johnnydiamondlonglive]

This soundtrack is menacing, vicious, precise and perfectly suited to the events of the film.

[@tonyfei472]

one of the best soundtrack! it just fits the story and the culture so well

[@theflyestoneyouknow603]

Oh my god, when the flute began to play and that sudden incorporation of agressive percussion....sounds like death fluttering from above

[@rocistone7507]

Because that's what it was!

[@tomshiba51]

It really does. Very Ominous.

[@STP43FAN1]

And the upshot is that part isn’t even combat, it’s the first attack wave on approach and Colonel Bratton trying to get the message to Pearl

[@timfremstad3434]

This version is far more dramatic than how it's cut into the movie, you can feel the tension, it's a great piece of music

[@STP43FAN1]

I think part of the reason for that is, uncluttered with sounds from the film, one can focus on all the little ticks and nuances within the score that in the finished film get smothered.

[@Rickwmc]

Unlike Pearl Harbor this movie concentrated on historical figures. Moreover, the use of actual WW2 fighter planes is utterly fantastic. And what can be said of Jerry Goldsmith other than another fantastic compliation of music.

[@vincentlefebvre9255]

Spartaculus Jones In fact the zeroes were modified Harvards .

[@petercampi2840]

Sadly this movie was panned at theaters by vets. The movie was not an initial commercial success, however, its special effects were top notch at the time (earning it the academy award for visual FX) and were recycled in later WWII films (which helped recoup the budget). Thankfully it gets the recognition today that it was robbed of then.

[@Rickwmc]

You are right. But I do like watching real planes roaring by. Good luck.

[@vincentlefebvre9255]

Spartaculus Jones You probably loved "Battle of Britain" with real spitfires , hurricanes, spanish me-109 and heinkel 111. Friendly 😁

[@Rickwmc]

Yes indeed. Battle of Britain came out in 1969 I think. Thanks.

[@bradleyscarton3931]

How did this score not get nominated for an Oscar back in 1970?

[@finalfantasyst]

He was nominated for Patton in 1970. The Academy usually doesn't nominate composers twice in one year. A shame because this score is fantastic.

[@zichen5223]

Frankly speaking this is much better than Patton's suite! From music stand point, this one is unmatched! And an American composer really did a top notch job to catch that essence of Japan

[@christophers.o622]

Every time when a very good movie about World War II in the Pacific was made, it was always underrated, the music score also underrated rated while about the war in Europe was always overrated, fovoratism. Tora,Tora,Tora, In Harms Way, The Final Countdown, Midway, MacArthur all about World War II in the Pacific along with Sands of Iwo Jima, Back to Bataan, An American gurellia in the Philippines were also underrated.

[@nickholmes7456]

Patton (1970) was probably the only reason this movie didn’t get a ton of oscars. This movie is AWESOME, and the ONLY Pearl Harbor movie for me. I usually follow this up with the movie Midway (1976) afterwards...now only if they had a movie based on the Naval Battles of Guadalcanal...In Harms Way comes pretty close to depicting it...but no movie has yet captured the drama and struggle on both sides that earned that patch of water “Iron Bottom Sound”

[@iceomistar4302]

Ah but John Williams I think did get nominated twice in 1977 or 78

[@PointyTailofSatan]

Wow, this is awesome. I knew Jerry was a movie music god, but for someone who probably knew next to nothing about Japanese music, this is amazing.

[@theonemesis5217]

Obviously he knew, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to produce both this as wells "The challenge"! Don't worry, and these Grand Masters, studied many different forms of music, throughout the world, during their carriers!

[@ericthered760]

Visited Pearl Harbor recently. This theme kept buzzing around in my head.

[@iceomistar4302]

One of my favourite Jerry Goldsmith scores. If only he were still around.

[@JafuetTheSame]

I have to yet figure out why Patton score gets so much attention while this masterpiece is barely mentioned. Honestly the music in Patton I barely noticed while in Tora whenever the orchestra starts I always get goosebumps

[@koontingchan460]

Patton and Tora Tora Tora showed on Hongkong in 1970, both are good soundtrack

[@frankstonrat]

One of Goldsmith's most evocative soundtracks, brilliant.

[@piotrsieminski]

The fragment from 8:39 is absolutely majestic. The gradual inclusion of individual sections. Like in Ravel's Bolero.

[@johanna1338]

December 7h, watch for years Tora-Tora-Tora on DVD. The best movie of War ever!

[@zichen5223]

This music deserves much better credit! It really catches the essence of Japanese type of surprise attack! That gambling willingness to take on the greatest risk without a thought of the might be repercussions!

[@43nostromo]

3:33. The bouncy percussion back and forth is the "14th Part". My absolute favorite track in the entire score.

[@johanna1338]

Today December 7th. 2021. On DVD Tora Tora Tora. I love the movie and the music!

[@andersadolf9800]

❤Musik ❤ Tora tora tora

[@aravindvenk]

The Tragic heroism of the men on both sides is captured in this music.

[@iceomistar4302]

You mean the tragic foolishness on the part of the Japanese and the bravery of the Americans?

[@navaladmiral2962]

Icbeoaneistari of Chu It’s indeed tragic, tragic for the millions of Asians being genocided when the Allied fleets cannot help those poor people because their fleets just got obliterated

[@darkknightwithanidea1845]

The most EPIC composer of mood in film - Jerry Goldsmith.

[@zerokomma]

Epic and highly inventive score!Jerry rules dammit. Fantastic suite! Thanks chief!

[@johndates9827]

I have this movie saved on my DVR. "Tora" just gets better with each viewing.

[@aaryanpatel6942]

How quickly does one know, that the music has been envisaged by a legend. As soon as the first note rings true.

[@43nostromo]

Starting at 3:34, you can understand why Goldsmith was absolutely one of the best composers, ever.

[@crusader7659]

Thanks bro, I have been looking all over for this specific part of the soundtrack for a while.

[@jonathanbradshaw1959]

Whereabouts in the film is this bit of the score played?

[@Graphite42]

It's played at the 1hr 15min mark of the film. Where E.G. Marshall is running around the halls of the Capitol trying to find anyone to look at the deciphered 14th part on Sunday morning.

[@shermano2153]

Not better than Dr Kildare

[@shyamsundarr2137]

Title music excellent. Jerry goldsmith.

[@andrewwinter7843]

I hope I am not the only person here who recognizes that this underlying theme of this music is the traditional Japanese piece "Sakura" (Cherry Blossom) kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3yYYn-Yoch4hdk Goldsmith was a genius to weave it into everything in this score.

[@mingyuhuang8944]

Yeah I noticed that too. "Sakura Sakura" is like Japan's national folk song. It's masterfully done and so subtle

[@mike65535]

Great to learn something today! Thanks

[@josephanthony8585]

Yeah, I recognize it. When I was in the U.S. Navy, I was stationed in Japan.

[@Kamandi1971]

damn Jerry was brillianrt miss him !

[@cristinagalindo446]

Magnífica música....sabe muy bien unir la música tradicional nipona con un lenguaje más abstracto. Todos los sonidos están tan bien dispuestos, que consigue crear la sensación de amenaza que se cierne sobre la historia del ataque a Pearl Harbor. Me encanta el uso de la percusión con la orquesta......Magnífico!!!!.

[@goakarayacri]

08:40 GOOSEBUMPS

[@JafuetTheSame]

10:49

[@richardtempleton8840]

Great Epic film for its age. They made some of the best war films in the 60's and early 70's. This is one of them. Personally this film is more realistic than modern films today with all the Hollywood glitz they produce today 😀

[@videowilliams]

No need to ask why this little number comes to mind on December 7th, 2021. Long before the spirit-shaking shock to the system of 9/11/01, there was the shock of Pearl Harbor 80 years ago. No artists since have captured the tension leading up to it on both sides the way this film and maestro Jerry Goldsmith did, nor the overarching tragedy of Admiral Yamamoto, forced from above to mastermind the thing while knowing in his bones that it would get Japan destroyed in the war that followed 💥🤯🔥

[@jorgemondioncabrera6456]

For me, the best war movies are: The Battle of the Bulge, Patton, The Battle of Britain, Tora Tora Tora, Das Boot and Der Untergang. Respect to Tora Tora Tora, I watched almost 150 or 200 times? I lost the count, but when I watch it again, this movie is like the finest wines, with every drink, your find it better than then last time. The meticulous construction of the ships, planes, the magnificent and thrill music of Jerry Goldsmith are a sample of very good cinema. When I watch Pearl Harbor, never I seen a piece of sh.....a trash, like that, even having the resources like computer aid, in a word this movie it is manure!

[@timfremstad3434]

Love the artwork too.

[@brianlaneherder3666]

I love all the dissonance and staggered rhythms Goldsmith uses to represent the fatal, cascading series of miscommunications and mutual underestimations between the United States and Japan leading up to Pearl Harbor.

[@iceomistar4302]

He used a similar technique during Planet of the Apes, these are some of his most experimental scores

[@2view428]

The soundtrack has caught the emotion of 7 December 1941 on screen

[@tripsadelica]

This use of instruments to "paraphrase" physical movement is something I think Jerry picked up via his strong friendship with Benny Herrmann. Herrmann used orchestras in similar ways.

[@robertpolanco1973]

@tripsadelica - Benny Herrmann?

[@tripsadelica]

Around Fox that's what they called the esteemed Bernard, especially Lionel Newman.

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

Right around the @2:00 mark foreshadowing of "Capricorn One" in the years to come.

[@logofilm8644]

Way better than most WWI/WWII aerial films at the film. No stupid romance to interrupt the acting and narrative, just great cinematography.

[@sauceyeti4381]

Akira Kurosawa was actually denied of directing this film. Think of how greater this already amazing film would've been if it was in Kurosawa's hands.

[@mr.brooks8913]

I thought Akira was on the set for a little but he had to leave for mental promblems

[@theonemesis5217]

Who told you that?! Go at Wikipedia and see for yourself! His name poses at the Cinematography! That means that he (....together with cinematographers Hideo Oguni and Ryuuzoo Kikushima) had an active role in the Japanese segment of this amazing movie!

[@vidimur1977]

Already IS a great film without him.

[@braunhausmedia]

I was a thirteen year old extra in this movie.

[@matte6371]

TORA! TORA! TORA!

[@richardconnold8060]

This was composed by a man, who, in 1970, and with THE BLUE MAX, PLANET OF THE APES, PATTON and TORA! TORA! TORA! under his belt, was at the very top of his game...and then he got better...

[@caligulapontifex5759]

Up next The Omen (his only Oscar) Star Trek, Alien, Rambo, Hoosiers, Poltergeist, Total Recall. Simply amazing.

[@terierirlandzki7]

"I'm afraid we woke the giant, that we breathed the will to fight"-Yamamoto

[@kanapotetakerngkeat3506]

Paweł Grabas he didn’t said that

[@MayaMachina-n8s]

@@kanapotetakerngkeat3506 no but it's paraphrased from what he really said: "A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack."

[@kanapotetakerngkeat3506]

Orchestra Gamer thank you for the fact! I’m still in an early stage of a history nerd.

[@MaryHernandez-kk6nh]

hay quá đi mất

[@koontingchan460]

6:16 Japanese young fighters eager to go, on the deck of Carrier, Akagi

[@psychokitty444]

Simply the best musical representation of aerial combat, ever. Blue Max is a great score and an important entry in Goldsmith's discography, buy it doesn't hold a candle to this.

[@claudiosoto7090]

Esta película relata historicamente los acontecimeintos del ataque a P. Harbor y la música esta sincronizada con el tiempo en un ritmo perfecto de dramatismo que marco un vuelco en la guerra WW2. No así la actual película con todo tipo de efecto especiales, pero que no logra el realismo y dramatismo de la primera película que no poseía estos efectos especiales de ahora

[@Disco_Fish_Jockey]

Great suspenseful music. I can just picture that guy Kramer at the War Department thinking, “Oh Shit we know Japan’s going to attack, but where??”

[@videowilliams]

Great suite! Did you cut it together yourself? I came to listen to it on December 7th as a remembrance of Pearl Harbor to post on facebook... haven't been able to stop listening to it since.

[@rsarrio]

magnifica banda sonora, combinación de musica japonesa con occidental, la oyes y estas viendo la pelicula

[@tonyburzio4107]

Played this soundtrack on September 11th.

[@ИванИванов-р3м9ц]

Жаль такой фильм торо торо торо не показывают по нашему российскому телевидению очень хороший фильм

[@mrExcellent101]

In 1904 the Japanese launched a sneak attack on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur. Japan beat the huge Russian Empire in the war of 1904-05. They thought they could do it again with the Americans at Pearl. USA is definitely not like the incompetent Tsarist empire. Japanese made a big mistake.

[@lornakim9886]

Targeted Massachusetts on Facebook + Derrick Charles Robinson and All of his Fb Friends in full

[@TB1M1]

Again JG was robbed why on earth did he not get academy award for this or "the challenge"..

[@Hiro04]

Where can I go to find more music like this?

[@irish89055]

forgot what i did on google translation but Bushito bushwack you stink would have sufficed...name that quote(the movie)

[@jonathanpinckney9227]

Bataan?

[@ワレンシュタイン]

「結城兵曹。発信！『ワレ奇襲二成功セリ』トラ・トラ・トラや！」

[@szymonkowalowka8515]

"O godzinie 7.49, zanim jeszcze pierwsze bomby poszybowały w stronę amerykańskich okrętów i pierwsze torpedy przebiły powierzchnię wód kana- łu portowego Pearl Harbor, komandor Fuchida nadał przez radio sygnał TORA...TORA... TORA..., oznaczający, że zaskoczenie przeciwnika powiodło się. Sygnał ten przeznaczony był dla dowództwa Zespołu Uderzeniowego, który krążył o 200 mil na północ od miejsca, gdzie się znajdowali - nad wyspą Oahu, ale niezwykłym sposobem, rzecz bez precedensu, depesza, nadana przez pokładową radiostację o niewielkim z natury rzeczy zasięgu, odebrana została na flagowym pancerniku „Nagato", kotwiczącym w Zatoce Hiroszimskiej." Zbigniew Flisowski - "Burza nad Pacyfikiem"

[@joes9129]

10:26

[@francisyurisich694]

Stan Lee in formation

[@Raveninety9]

that doesn't mean shit in Japanese Ire

[@ВиталийМирошников-ю9п]

Херь.

[@Indy_660]

Она весьма хороша

[@theonemesis5217]

Poor old Mr. Goldsmith was most probably amongst the most unappreciated of the Grand Masters, in the movie musical industry! Even though a genius in his music scores, he received way less nominations of Oscars, than others, and won just one of those, for his music at Omen. This particular score (...of Tora - Tora - Tora), was a brilliant piece of work, that unfortunately, went unnoticed by the "wise guys" of the Academy awards....a group of people, that proved throughout the years, how incompetent they are, in what has to do, with judging and recognising the good music (...among other things of course)!

[@iceomistar4302]

I actually like that about him, it makes discovering him for the first time all the more impactful.

[@joes9129]

10:48

[@joes9129]

10:49