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There has never been a great film about September 11, 2001. There should be. For 25 years, artists and audiences have been processing the attacks onscreen. But something is still missing.

Has there ever been a good Pearl Harbor movie? Maybe this kind of thing doesn't really lend itself to fictionalized depictions.

Kurosawa directed the Japanese half?! I gave up on it when I was 15 (was into shitty action films), I should revisit with haste.

"The Japanese side was initially to be directed by Akira Kurosawa, who worked on script development and pre-production for two years. However, after two weeks of shooting, he was replaced by Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku, who directed the Japanese sections." It's AK's vision carried out by them