LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) While many films have explored World War II in Europe, from D-Day to the Holocaust to the French resistance, and myriad other aspects as well, the Pacific theater has largely been overlooked, only rarely examined on screen in much detail.
Executive producers Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman, as well as a bevy of directors, writers and actors, hope to remedy this inequity with "The Pacific."
The monumental 10-part miniseries goes "under the helmet" to follow the intersecting experiences of three U.S. Marines as they fight against Japan.