G.I. Samurai
1979 · Movie · 139 min · ★ 5.9
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
- 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
as Lt. Yoshiaki Iba
Isao Natsuyagi
as Nagao Kagetora
Kôji Naka
as Taisuke Mimura
Jun Etoh
as Nobuhiko Ken
Ryô Hayami
as Kazumichi Morishita
Akira Nishikino
as Koji Kikuchi
Yoichi Miura
as Manabu Nonaka
- HK
Hiroshi Kamayatsu
as Mokichi Nemoto
Isao Kuraishi
as Masao Maruoka
- KT
Ken Takahashi
as Masayoshi Hirai
Directed by Kōsei Saitō