Editing Tora! Tora! Tora! (section)

===Box office===
At the time of its initial release, ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' was thought to be a box office disappointment in North America,<ref>[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-74440066/flop-flop-flop-box.html "Flop! Flop! Flop! (Box office receipts of war film 'Tora! Tora! Tora!')."] ''Variety.'' Retrieved: February 12, 2012.</ref> despite its domestic box office of $29,548,291 making it the [[1970 in film|ninth-highest-grossing film of 1970]].<ref>[http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1970/00260.php "Tora! Tora! Tora! Domestic Box Office."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203181055/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1970/00260.php |date=2014-02-03 }} ''The Numbers.'' Retrieved: February 12, 2012.</ref> It was a major hit in Japan, and over the years, home media releases provided a larger overall profit.<ref name="Parish p. 412">[[#refParish1990|Parish 1990]], p. 412.</ref><ref>[http://www.dvdmoviecentral.com/ReviewsText/tora_tora_tora.htm "Tora! Tora! Tora!"] ''dvdmoviecentral.com.'' Retrieved: February 12, 2012.</ref> The film had earned {{¥|194.22 million}} in Japanese [[distributor rentals]] by 1971, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 1971 in Japan.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=キネマ旬報ベスト・テン85回全史 1924-2011 |magazine=[[Kinema Junpo|Kinema Junpo Mook]] |date=May 2012 |publisher=Kinema Junposha |isbn=978-4873767550 |page=285}}</ref>

According to Fox records, the film required {{US$|37.15 million|long=no}} in rentals to break even, and had done so by December 11, 1970.<ref name="Fox">{{cite book|page=[https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv/page/329 329]|title=The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox|url=https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv|url-access=registration|last=Silverman|first=Stephen M|year=1988|publisher=L. Stuart|isbn=9780818404856}}</ref>