Oba: The Last Samurai

Oba: The Last Samurai
Film poster
Directed byHideyuki Hirayama
Screenplay by
  • Takuya Nishioka
  • Gregory Marquette
  • Cellin Gluck
Based onOba, The Last Samurai
by Don Jones
StarringYutaka Takenouchi
CinematographyKôzô Shibasaki
Music byTakashi Kako
Release date
  • 11 February 2011 (2011-02-11) (Japan)
Running time
128 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguagesJapanese
English

Oba: The Last Samurai (太平洋の奇跡 –フォックスと呼ばれた男 –, Taiheiyō no kiseki: Fokkusu to yobareta otoko, i.e. Miracle of the Pacific: The Man Called Fox), also known as Miracle of the Pacific, Battle of the Pacific and Codename: Fox, is a 2011 Japanese World War II Pacific War drama film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama and based on the true story of Captain Sakae Ōba, who together with his survivors held out on the island of Saipan for 512 days.[1][2]

  1. ^ Smith, Ian Hayden (2012). International Film Guide 2012. p. 156. ISBN 978-1908215017.
  2. ^ "Oba: The Last Samurai". Japanese Film Festival. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.