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G.I. Samurai

1979 · Movie · 139 min

6.5(36)unSUB Rating

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A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.

Also known as Time Slip · I Want To

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Details
Years
1979
Release date
1979-09-17
Language
Japanese
Runtime
139 min
TMDB rating (input)
5.9/10 (36 votes)
Budget
$9,000,000

Themes

  • japan
  • samurai
  • helicopter
  • time warp
  • time travel
  • tank
  • sword fight
  • sengoku period
  • warring states period
  • japan self defense forces (jsdf)

Cast & crew

  • Sonny Chiba

    Sonny Chiba

    as Lt. Yoshiaki Iba

  • Isao Natsuyagi

    Isao Natsuyagi

    as Nagao Kagetora

  • Kôji Naka

    Kôji Naka

    as Taisuke Mimura

  • Jun Etoh

    Jun Etoh

    as Nobuhiko Ken

  • Ryô Hayami

    Ryô Hayami

    as Kazumichi Morishita

  • Akira Nishikino

    Akira Nishikino

    as Koji Kikuchi

  • Yoichi Miura

    Yoichi Miura

    as Manabu Nonaka

  • HK

    Hiroshi Kamayatsu

    as Mokichi Nemoto

  • Isao Kuraishi

    Isao Kuraishi

    as Masao Maruoka

  • KT

    Ken Takahashi

    as Masayoshi Hirai

Directed by Kōsei Saitō