Original title:戦国自衛隊
Year: 1979
Country: Japan
Region code: A
Contents: Blu-Ray
EAN: 760137206446
Image: 2.35:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio:
Japanese - Original Lossless Mono
Japanese - 4.0 Stereo Surround
Japanese - Remixed 5.1 Surround
Subtitles: English
Age rating: Not Rated
Genre: Action
Cast: Sonny Chiba, Tsunehiko Watase, Isao Natsuyagi
Director: Kosei Saito
Synopsis:
GI Samurai sees action superstar Sonny Chiba (The Street Fighter) heading the cast in a rip-roaring time-slip action blockbuster in which guns, tanks and helicopters come up against katana-wielding warriors on horseback!
During a routine military exercise, modern-day soldiers led by Second Lieutenant Iba (Chiba) find themselves transported back in time four hundred years to war-torn feudal Japan. Facing attacks by samurai warriors from rival clans, frictions rapidly emerge among these modern-day soldiers, whisked from a time of peace, freed from the strictures of a higher authority and stranded in one of the bloodiest and most decisive periods in Japan's history.
Based on a novel by Ryo Hanmura and directed by Kosei Saito (Ninja Wars), GI Samurai's epic battle scenes wowed Japanese audiences upon release in 1979 and are now more awe-inspiring than ever in a new 4K restoration by Kadokawa Pictures.
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