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January 1981 (USA)
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A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era...
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2 nominations
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the samurai genre meets time travel and modern weapons
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Cast
(in credits order) | 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 |
| Koji Iizuka | ... | Shokichi |
| Masashi Ishibashi | ... | Hosokawa Fujitaka |
| Toshitaka Itô | ... | Seaman Harumi Takashima |
| Haruki Kadokawa | ... | Sanada Masayuki |
| Takuzô 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 |
| Shin'ichirô 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 |
| Jinya Sato | ... | Osamu Seki |
| Gajirô Satô | ... | Foot Soldier |
| 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 |
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| Kôsei Saitô | |||
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| Ryo Hanmura | novel | |
| Toshio Kamata | writer | |
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| Haruki Kadokawa | .... | executive producer | |
| Takeshi Motomura | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Kentaro Haneda | |||
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| Shinya Inoue | |||
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| Hiroshi Ueda | |||
Production CompaniesDistributors
- Toho Company (1979) (Japan) (theatrical)
- American National Enterprises (1981) (USA) (theatrical) (dubbed)
- Arena Home Video
- Astra Video (1983) (UK) (VHS)
- BCI Eclipse (2008) (USA) (DVD)
- Empire Video (19??) (Netherlands) (VHS)
- Mill Creek Entertainment (2010) (USA) (DVD)
- Oriental Extremes Video
- Stomp Visual (2005) (Australia) (DVD)
- VPS Film-Entertainment GmbH
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139 min | Norway:117 min | USA:85 min
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Norway:18 | Australia:MA | UK:15 | UK:15 (cut) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) (video rating) | Finland:K-18 | West Germany:16
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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.