Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote
Famous quote regarding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote
Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote is a film quote attributed to Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto regarding the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by forces of Imperial Japan. The quotation is portrayed at the very end of the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora! as "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." There is no evidence that Yamamoto ever wrote or said the quote. Vermont C. Royster offers a possible origin to the phrase attributed to Napoleon, "China is a sickly, sleeping giant. But when she awakes the world will tremble." An abridged version of the quotation is also featured in the 2001 film Pearl Harbor. The 2019 film Midway also features Yamamoto speaking aloud the sleeping giant quote.
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