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Zenji Abe was a 25-year-old Zero pilot on his first mission when he attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. He continued flying bombing raids until June 1944, when he was shot down and stranded on the Mariana Islands. On Sept. 2, 1945, he paddled a rubber raft to a U.S. ship offshore and signed his recognition of Japan's surrender...
...Many years later, Abe visited Pearl Harbor again, this time as part of a tour group. Today, retired from Japan's Self-Defense Force, he lives in a small apartment in Koganei, a suburb of Tokyo, his living room decorated with a small American flag and finger-sized replicas of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. Recently, Abe shared his recollections...
...Early in the afternoon one day in the middle of October 1941, all the pilots were called together. There was a single chalkboard, covered with a white curtain, in the front of the room. An officer removed the curtain to reveal a map of Pearl Harbor. The officer said: "All of you are probably wondering what is going on. For the last four months, we've been doing quite different training. If we don't tell you why, it could affect your fighting spirit. Japan has been negotiating with the U.S. government patiently to maintain our position in East Asia...
...that Pearl Harbor is a wimpy movie. Plenty of things explode, but it's the most serious-minded film of Bruckheimer's career, and it has arrived with not only some of the greatest hype in history but the burden of history as well. Critics will tell you in no uncertain terms that it creaks under this weight. Bruckheimer will tell you he doesn't need their approval. "If I had to go by reviews, I wouldn't be making movies," says the producer, sounding a little grumpy, just hours after the New York Times called Pearl Harbor "defiantly, extravagantly...
...been known to send scathing notes to journalists who treat him badly. Though he won't admit his age ("In Hollywood, they think you're over the hill at a certain point"), he is said to be 55 and seems to be hearing a certain ticking. With Pearl Harbor, he is fighting for respectability and a grown-up audience. The battle began two years...