Medal of Honor: Rising Sun Movie. All Cut Scenes. World War 2 War Story.

On December 7, 1941, U.S. Marine Corporal Joseph D. "Joe" Griffin awakens on the USS California to the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. He makes his way topside, putting out fires and aiding crewmen along the way, and, once topside, meets up with Gunnery Sergeant Jack "Gunny" Lauton, his commander, and Joe works to shoot down planes and destroy torpedoes. Soon after, however, he is blown off the ship, but is rescued by a PT boat carrying Gunny, Pfc. Frank Spinelli and Pfc. Silas Whitfield. Joe gets in the turret and shoots down planes to defend Battleship Row. After witnessing the sinking of the USS Arizona, they defend the USS Nevada as it attempts to escape harbor.
On January 1, 1942, Joe and Gunny are stationed in the Philippines, where they meet up with Joe's younger brother, Donnie, who is in a Marine demolition unit. Donnie and the demolition engineers need to blow Calumpit Bridge, but their demolition truck got captured. The three successfully get the truck back, and the bridge is blown, but Donnie is still inside a tank when it is overrun by Japanese soldiers, and is presumed dead. On August 7, 1942, Gunny, Joe and two other Marines are part of a midnight raid on Guadalcanal to take an airfield and destroy an ammo dump before the main assault at dawn. On October 14, 1942, however, the Japanese are hammering them with artillery from their position codenamed 'Pistol Pete'. Because of this, Gunny gives Joe two Marines and the mission to take out Pistol Pete. The mission is successful, and, along the way, they meet up with Martin Clemens, a Scottish guerrilla fighter and coastwatcher, 2 natives called Selas and Kiep and they rescue P.O.W. Lieutenant Edmund Harrison, a demolitions expert who blows up the guns for them. The mission is successful, and Joe is recommended by Gunny, and is put in the Office of Strategic Services and promoted Sergeant.
In March, 1943, Joe is sent to Japanese-occupied Singapore to infiltrate a top secret Axis summit led by Japanese Commander Shima. Along the way, he meets up with Pfc. Ichiro "Harry" Tanaka, a Japanese-American OSS operative, and Major Philip Bromley, a British SOE operative. Joe manages to steal German Colonel Kandler's uniform, and infiltrate the summit, where Japanese commander Mastaka Shima reveals the discovery of large quantities of gold in Burma; and introduces Serguey Borov, a Russian traitor of the Allies who plans to overthrow Hitler and Stalin to declare peace between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Joe's cover is blown when Kandler suddenly bursts in, but Bromley arrives, and the two fight their way out of the hotel, and Tanaka picks them up in a double decker bus.
On April 26, 1944, the three are sent on a mission to investigate Japanese gold smelting operations in temples in Burma. While there, Raj, their Flying Tigers pilot, is shot down, and they set to work getting him back. Bromley and his men destroy four AA guns so the a proper air strike can be done, and Tanaka and Joe infiltrate the temples, and rescue Raj. The air strike destroys the gold smelting operation, and the mission is successful. On July 17, 1944, Joe falls out their plane while in Thailand while they are investigating a train with Shima's gold in it. He meets up with Bromley, and they blow up a train full of Shima's gold, but more of it is aboard Shima's supercarrier, so they fly there, and arrive the next day.
Bromley and Joe fight below deck, while Tanaka infiltrates the officer's quarters. Joe and Bromley are gassed and captured after much fighting, and Shima interrogates them. Tanaka manages to free Joe, but is personally killed by Shima. Joe fights through a lot more of the ship, and sees Shima getting away with Donnie in a plane. Eventually, Joe and Bromley meet on deck, and steal a plane. After several failed takeoffs and shooting down many enemy planes, they get off the ship, and Bromley mourns Tanaka's death, but declares that they will search for Donnie.
The ending to Medal of Honor: Heroes revealed that Joseph was planning POW rescue raids, signifying that Joseph was eventually able to rescue Donnie later in the war.

[@greyfox37]

It was cutscenes like these that made me a WWII history minor in college and a WWII ameteur historian today. I miss the days of these great black and white war footages and history lessons. Really immersed you into the games

[@syberpunk]

Lucky. We have no such thing as WWII history in any school/college I’ve attended.

[@AshlandMan]

I can guarantee that is not true. I go to a small regional university and we have several WWII classes.

[@robw7158]

When this game was being developed, there was an online forum where people could submit stories of their relatives' experiences from WW2. Dreamworks and eventually EA were heavily involved with the project and used several stories in the MOH games. The part about Joe and Donny's mother keeping up the Christmas decorations until her boys came home came from the story I posted. My great-grandmother left her tree up in 1944 until my grandfather came home in September 1945. When he got home the needles had all fallen off, but the ornaments were still on it and his presents were still wrapped.

[@rustyrussell2537]

Am I the only one who thought the letters added a nice touch to the game?

[@dastemplar9681]

They did, I never even came across them during my play throughs on the GameCube. It adds some to Joe’s character and how important his family is to him, especially Donnie.

[@austinsigler7535]

I didn't like them as a kid but now I am rewatching and understanding much more of the plot and subtext than I did when I first played it lol.

[@_I-Like-Fries_]

I wish the sequel wasn't cancelled. It would've been great to see if we could rescue Donnie after finding out he was still alive

[@masterDevis]

And killing Shima, the sick bastard. You don't set up an antagonist/nemesis like that only for them to escape so you can never kill them. At least in MOH Frontline you got to corner and freaking *kill* that nazi madman Sturmgeist

[@Janado_12]

Donnie is alive I played medal of honor heroes and was able to rescue donnie as joe

[@itsconnorstime]

I remember reading a list of levels in a preview, and two didn’t make the Final Cut. One was escaping Singapore, and the other was the famous raid at the Cabantuan POW camp, which I believe is what the art in the “returning to base!” Screen depicts.

[@bigbeauf_____3167]

I visited the National WW2 Museum in New Orleans and it's my favorite museum. I recommend visiting the museum and New Orleans because it's a cool city and a very nice museum.

[@outerheavenorphan4953]

Player who experienced MOH Allied Assault, Pacific Assault COD1 Hidden and dangerous 2 etc never had a chance to adapt to games like Moh rising sun, COD finest hour it always felt like cheap adaptation like an lite version side game. Only MOH frontline was standing on its own and well, I loved the graphics the atmosphere, the unique originality, it was filled with features that Allied Assault lacked to put it simply it was completely different, the only common feature was the Captain voice on Dday giving Powell and Patterson same orders. Dday was great, market garden was great, the pub with germans was fun as hell

[@Ghostshadow112]

POV: Your preschool fingers ruined your disc so now cutscenes are PowerPoint slideshows.

[@889ranger]

Great vid!

[@arturocavendish6859]

I have the Game Cube version and never got the archival footage cutscenes :/

[@powerdanger7315]

Back in 2004/2005 this graphic damn good so damn good before RE4 took the place in 2006

[@TheLexdut]

Best war game ever

[@infernoreviews2529]

Back when moh was still a thing. This was the kast good moh game.

[@Jschaefer04]

You've definitely haven't played MOH Allied Assault,Pacific Assault, or Airborne then😂

[@infernoreviews2529]

@@Jschaefer04 not allies assault but pacofic assault wnd airborne I did play. Airborne was the last one that really had that MOH vibe. Pacific assault was good too and had incredible graphics at the time. Ahh those were the days 😎

[@Jschaefer04]

@@infernoreviews2529 yes but allied assault was definitely the best

[@panagiotisrokas187]

Pearl Harbor. Guadalcanal. Philippines.

[@Vinex3431]

god yuri lowenthal really is everywhere..

[@masterDevis]

... Semper fi... ;_;7

[@ethanschultz1215]

December 7th, a "day which will live in infamy", for...FDR?