Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

FUCHIDA:

(into radio) We have a tremendous victory. Many ships damaged, some totally destroyed. But the Second Wave's attack is being hindered by the smoke.

INT. WAR ROOM OF THE AKAGI - DAY

YAMAMOTO:

The more we attack, the harder it is to find targets. And we no longer have surprise.

GENDA:

If we launch the third wave and annihilate their fuel depots, we destroy their ability to operate in the Pacific for at least a year!

YAMAMOTO:

And if we fail, and lose our carriers, we destroy our ability to fight them at all.

(beat) As soon as the second wave returns, we will withdraw.

EXT. JAPANESE CARRIER AKAGI - DAY The last planes touch down, and the lead carrier and the other ships in the Japanese assault fleet turn back toward home.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - AFTERMATH - DAY The harbor is a place of shattered bodies and shattered ships. Blood, body parts, debris everywhere, and all of it made more hellish by the oil fires on the water and the choking black smoke those fires produce.

Every survivor has become an emergency fireman, stretcher bearer, medic, iron worker. They fish men from the water, extract them from the tangled wreckage of the ships.

Everyone is screaming and yelling -- the wounded for help, the helpers for more help.

Local firemen and civilians battle heroically too; the water mains are ruptured, so they put pump water from the base swimming pool toward the burning ships.

The PHOTOGRAPHER records this with his black-and-white film camera. He is shaken, and yet he understands the magnitude of what he is recording -- the loss of America's innocence.

EXT. ARMY BASE - AFTERMATH - DAY In one place, outside a barracks, soldiers hit by the bombs are just becoming conscious. One of them comes to.

CONSCIOUS SOLDIER Sarge?! Where are you, Sarge?

He's crawling around toward the bushes; his legs are shattered, but he's spotted a body. He reaches it, turns it over -- and it's headless.

He turns away in horror...and finds himself staring at the severed head.

The medics appear.

MEDIC:

We've got two more over here!

EXT. GENERAL SHORT'S OFFICE - DAY The Western Union messenger, Tadao Fuchikami, delivers the telegram from Washington.

INT. GENERAL SHORT'S OFFICE - DAY Short and his staff are assessing damage.

SHORT:

I want lookouts and sentries everywhere, with orders to shoot first and ask questions later.

COLONEL:

You think an invasion possible, General?

SHORT:

After this morning, we better not consider anything impossible.

An aide hands Short the telegram. He reads it --

SHORT:

From Washington. "Intelligence reports an ultimatum from Japan to be given precisely at one p.m. Washington time.