G.I. Samurai
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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.
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Sonny Chiba
Lt. Yoshiaki Iba
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Kōsei Saitō Director · Toshio Kamata Writer Ryō Hanmura Author
Budget $9M · First release September 17, 1979 · Produced in Japan
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Budget
$9,000,000
Production
KADOKAWA
Production
TOHO
Production
Kadokawa Haruki Jimusho
Production
Japan
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Original title
戦国自衛隊
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · September 17, 1979
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Germany
April 24, 1981 · Theatrical
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