Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

OFFICER:

Radar station has picked up a cloud of blips, coming in from the northeast.

He switches on the radio, and tunes it to KGMB; hearing the Hawaiian music reassures him something...

COMMANDER:

KGMB is on early. That means we've got a flight of B-17's coming in from the mainland, they use the radio music for a homing beacon.

INT. RADAR STATION - PEARL HARBOR - DAWN Dismayed, Ellis listens to the response from the headquarters.

ELLIS:

All right, Sir.

(he hangs up) They say don't worry about it.

He and the private look again at the cloud of blips -- growing ever larger, and moving in fast.

EXT. THE SKIES ABOVE THE PACIFIC - DAY The Japanese formations are streaking through the sky.

INT. THE COCKPITS - DAY The Japanese bombers, with three-man crews, are listening to the Hawaiian music of the radio station, using it for their homing beacon. They look out and see the sunrise -- it's beautiful, and resembles the Japanese flag.

EXT. SKIES ABOVE PEARL HARBOR - DAWN The Japanese scout plane is high in the air. It radios -- SCOUT PLANE PILOT Harbor quiet. Ships in place. Carriers gone.

INT. BRIDGE OF YAMAMOTO'S CARRIER - DAY Yamamoto is handed this message.

YAMAMOTO:

We have achieved surprise, but their carriers are not in port. I don't like this.

GENDA:

We have a fighter screen up, in case we are attacked, Admiral.

YAMAMOTO:

We must go ahead. This is our moment.

INT. ADMIRAL KIMMEL'S HOME - DAY The Admiral, dressed in his golf clothes, is leaving his home when a naval LIEUTENANT appears at his door.

LIEUTENANT:

Admiral, one of our destroyers reports sinking a sub on its way into Pearl.

ADMIRAL KIMMEL:

Relay that to Washington...and cancel my golf game.

INT. ADMIRAL KIMMEL'S OFFICE - OAHU - DAY Kimmel enters his office, and is handed the latest dispatches.

ADMIRAL KIMMEL:

Any response from Washington?

KIMMEL'S AIDE Nothing, Sir.

EXT. WESTERN UNION OFFICE - PEARL HARBOR - DAY A telegram, addressed to Admiral Kimmel, lands in the regular, not urgent, dispatch box. The messenger handles it promptly, hopping on his motorbike to deliver it.

EXT. SKIES ABOVE THE PACIFIC - DAY The Japanese planes increase throttle and nose down, diving toward the surface, hurtling into attack mode.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY The harbor lies quiet. It's a sleepy Sunday morning.

Children are playing, officers are stepping from their houses in their shorts to get the morning paper... EXT. MOUNTAINSIDE - OAHU - DAY Hawaiian Boy Scouts are hiking on a side of one of the mountains overlooking Pearl.

Suddenly booming over the mountain, barely ten feet above the summit, comes a stream of planes.