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G.I. Samurai is a japonais film of genre Science fiction directed by Kōsei Saitō with Sonny Chiba

G.I. Samurai (1979)

Sengoku jieitai

G.I. Samurai
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Length 2h19
Directed by
OriginJapon
Genres Science fiction,    War,    Fantastic,    Action
Rating63% 3.193963.193963.193963.193963.19396

G.I. Samurai (戦国自衛隊, Sengoku jieitai (Time Slip) and Sengoku Self Defense Force) is a 1979 Japanese feature-length film focusing on the adventures of a modern-day Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) team that accidentally travels in time to the Warring States period (戦国時代, Sengoku jidai). The film stars one of the top male Japanese actor Sonny Chiba and was based on a novel by Ryo Hanmura, a well-known writer of historical novels and science fiction.

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On their way to a maneuver, a wildly mixed group of Japanese soldiers with a tank, an APC, a patrol boat and a helicopter suddenly find themselves stranded 400 years in the past and under attack by samurai forces. Their designated leader, Lieutenant Yoshiaki Iba (Sonny Chiba), befriends and joins forces with Nagao Kagetora, the war leader of lord Koizumi. Seeing the stranded soldiers' war machinery in action, Kagetora persuades Iba to aid him in his struggle for supremacy in Japan.

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