G.I. Samurai
aka Time Slip, is a 1979 Japanese science fiction/action film focusing on the adventures of a modern-day Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) team that accidentally travels in time to the . The film stars Sonny Chiba, one of the top male Japanese actors, and was based on a novel by Ryo Hanmura, a well-known writer of historical novels and science fiction. A remake was theatrically released in Japan in 2005 under the title Samurai Commando: Mission 1549.
Plot
During a defensive exercise, a wildly mixed group of Japanese SDF forces with a tank, an APC, a patrol boat and a helicopter suddenly find themselves stranded 400 years in the past through a sudden time slip effect and under attack by samurai forces. Their acting commanding officer, Second Lieutenant Yoshiaki Iba, befriends and joins forces with Nagao Kagetora, the war leader of lord Koizumi. Seeing the SDF weaponry in action, Kagetora persuades Iba to aid him in his struggle for supremacy in feudal Japan.
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| author | Toshio Kamata |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Japan |
| director | Kōsei Saitō |
| events | time travel |
| genre | action adventure historical science fiction |
| keywords | act advanced apc armoured personnel carrier ashikaga yoshiaki battles of kawanakajima commanding officer create end feudal japan fight first class in battle kill kyoto nagao kagetora return home run away samurai second lieutenant shogun strand sword duel takeda shingen time paradox time slip uesugi kenshin |
| musicBy | Kentaro Haneda |
| producer | Haruki Kadokawa |
| publisher | Toho |
| theme | japanese science fiction action time |