A squad of Japanese Self Defense Force soldiers and their vehicles are caught in an unexplained time slip that sends them back to feudal Japan. The slip drops the SDF troops right into the middle of a skirmish between warriors, prompting them to defend themselves with modern weapons. After gunning down one of the groups, the soldiers earn the trust of a clan that they inadvertently help. Teaming up with the Lieutenant, who believes that their key to returning is causing enough havoc that there is a disturbance in history, the troops and the clan of warriors seek to rule over the area through force...
G.I. Samurai US Distributor: American National Express (1981) / Time: 85 Minutes
Alternate Titles
Sengoku Self Defense Force [Literal translation]
Time Slip: The Day of the Apocalypse [UK Title]
Staff
Cast
Directed
by Mitsumasa Saito Writing credits Toshio Kamata, Ryo Hanmura Produced by Haruki Kadokawa, Takeshi Motomura
Music by Kentaro Haneda
Cinematography by Iwao Isayama
Film Editing by Shinya Inoue Production Design by Hiroshi Ueda, Masao Tsutsui
Iba
Yoshiaki, Lieutenant Sonny Chiba Nagao Kagetora Isao Natsuyagi
Nobuhiko Ken Jun Eto Harumi Takashima Toshitaka Ito Sanada Masayuki Haruki Kadokawa Mimura Raita Ryu Mokichi Nemoto Hiroshi Kamayatsu Koji Kano Kenzo Kawarazaki Koizumi Asao Koike
Ishiba Kentaro Kudo Masao Maruoka Ko Kuraishi Masakichi Masao Kusakari Manabu Nonaka Yoichi Miura Yoshitaka Kujo Noboru Nakaya Honganji Mikio Narita Koji Kikuchi Akira Nishikino Kazuko Arai Nana Okada
Kuribayashi Hitoshi Omae Miwa Miyuki Ono Nishizawa Hiromitsu Suzuki Ono, Shoichiro Mancho Tsuji Hayato Yano Tsunehiko Watase Takeda Shingen's SonHiroyuki
Sanada Young SamuraiHiroko
Yakushimaru
- Masashi Ishibashi
- Shin Ichiro
- Shin Kishida
- Isami Natsuki
Region
2 Sengoku Self Defense Force Kadokawa (2000)
Background and Trivia
The film was registered with the US copyright office on September 16th, 2002 with the registration number V3488D640. The claim was part of a large submission that included 281 other movies. The title used was GI Samurai. The companies involved were Bank of America and Xenon Pictures.
