Sengoku jieitai (1979)

Director:

Kôsei Saitô

Writers:

Ryo Hanmura (novel)
Toshio Kamata (writer)

Release Date:

January 1981 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

Plot:

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era...

Plot Keywords:

Samurai | Japan | Soldier | Helicopter | Manga

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Sonny Chiba	...	Lt. Yoshiaki Iba
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jun Etô	...	Nobuhiko Ken
Moeko Ezawa	...	Widow Yui
Ryô Hayami	...	Kazumichi Morishita
Noriko Honma	...	Old Woman (as Ayako Honma)
Koji Iizuka	...	Shokichi
Masashi Ishibashi	...	Hosokawa Fujitaka
Toshitaka Ito	...	Seaman Harumi Takashima
Haruki Kadokawa	...	Sanada Masayuki
Takuzo Kadono	...	Seaman Toshishige Suga
Hiroshi Kamayatsu	...	Mokichi Nemoto
Goro Kataoka	...	Tategawa Katsuzo
Tadashi Kato	...	Sgt. Hideo Shimizu
Hiroshi Katsuno	...	Track Coach
Kenzô Kawarasaki	...	Koji Kano
Shin Kishida	...	Naoe Bungo
Asao Koike	...	Koizumi Yukinaga
Shinkoma Kokontei	...	Kenji Hori
Kentaro Kudo	...	Ishiba Takehide
Isao Kuraishi	...	Masao Maruoka
Masao Kusakari	...	Masakichi
Shinichirô Mikami	...	Goichi Shimada
Yoichi Miura	...	Manabu Nonaka
Kôji Naka	...	Taisuke Mimura
Hirohisa Nakata	...	Kuroda Naoharu
Noboru Nakaya	...	Yoshitaka Kujo
Mikio Narita	...	Kosa
Isao Natsuyagi	...	Nagao Kagetora
Akira Nishikino	...	Koji Kikuchi
Nana Okada	...	Kazuko Arai
Hitoshi Omae	...	Kuribayashi Magoichi
Miyuki Ono	...	Miwa
Maiko Otsuka	...	Mai
Raita Ryû	...	Haruhisa Kimura
Hiroyuki Sanada	...	Takeda Katsuyori
Gajiro Satoh	...	Foot Soldier
Jinya Sato	...	Osamu Seki
Akihiro Shimizu	...	Satoshi Onishi
Hiromitsu Suzuki	...	Go Nishizawa
Mizuho Suzuki	...	Ashikaga Yoshiaki
Ken Takahashi	...	Masayoshi Hirai
Hiroshi Tanaka	...	Takeda Shingen
Kaori Taniguchi	...	Shokichi & Mai's Mother
Kazunaga Tsuji	...	Shoichiro Ono
Katsumasa Uchida	...	Asaba Yorichika
Ryûdô Uzaki	...	Ochimusha
Tsunehiko Watase	...	Hayato Yano
Hiroko Yakushimaru	...	Young Takeda Samurai

Also Known As:

G.I. Samurai
Time Slip

Runtime:

139 min | Norway:117 min | USA:85 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:MA | UK:15 | UK:15 (cut) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) (video rating) | Finland:K-18 | Norway:18

Company:

Kadokawa Haruki Jimusho

Movie Connections:

Version of Sengoku jieitai 1549 (2005)

the samurai genre meets time travel and modern weapons

GI SAMURAI is a film revolving around a platoon of japanese soldiers on manuvers with a helicopter, jeeps, and a tank who get time warped to the past during the fuedal era of the samurai. This film mixes the samurai martial arts genre with a tale of modern weapons against waves of 1000's japanese samurai on horses and on foot. A fantasy film that was fun to watch. The modern japanese troops end up battling for their lives in the past of japan. One of SONNY CHIBA's better films after the popular STREET FIGHTER series.