G.I. Samurai

Name: G.I. Samurai
Genre: Action, Science Fiction, War
Released: 1979-09-17T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 5.8

About G.I. Samurai

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.

G.I. Samurai (1979) is a science fiction war film directed by Kōsei Saitō. Its themes are sword fight, helicopter, samurai, and tank.

Sonny Chiba takes the lead as Lt. Yoshiaki Iba, Isao Natsuyagi as Nagao Kagetora, Kôji Naka as Taisuke Mimura, and Jun Etoh as Nobuhiko Ken. At 139 minutes long, it arrived in September 1979.

The screenplay is by Toshio Kamata. American members can watch it on ARROW.

Ugetsu, Throne of Blood, and Kagemusha make useful companions to G.I. Samurai, all filed under japan and sengoku period.