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[[Randall Wallace]], the screenwriter of ''Pearl Harbor'', readily admitted that he copied the line from ''[[Tora Tora Tora|Tora! Tora! Tora!]]''. (''Pearl Harbor'' is not troubled by accuracy; among other examples of [[dramatic license]], it shows Yamamoto [with a beard he never had in real life] saying those words while standing on a carrier in the attacking force despite the fact that he was on board his [[flagship]] [[Japanese battleship Nagato|''Nagato'']] anchored at a naval base in [[Japan]] throughout the attack.)
The director of the movie ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'', [[Richard Fleischer]], stated that while Yamamoto may never have said those words, the film's producer, [[Elmo Williams]], had found the line written in Yamamoto's diary. Yamamoto, however, never kept a diary.<sup>[citation needed]</sup> Williams, in turn, has stated that [[Larry Forrester]], the screenwriter, found a 1943 letter from Yamamoto to the Admiralty in [[Tokyo, Japan|Tokyo]] containing the quote. However, Forrester cannot produce the letter, nor can anyone else, American or Japanese, recall or find it.
In "The Reluctant Admiral," Hiroyuki Agawa, without a citation, does give a quote from a reply by Admiral Yamamoto to Ogata Taketora on January 9, 1942, which is strikingly similar to the famous version: "A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack."
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