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G.I. Samurai

Kōsei Saitō · 139 minutes

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.

Action, War, Science Fiction

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel is an important premise, with limited sustained exploration.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Unknown.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Modern soldiers displaced into feudal Japan spend most of the story in historical warfare. Their desire to return and speculation about changing history matter, but the film does not develop repeated successful jumps.

Modern Japanese soldiers are explicitly displaced into the warring-states period; cause is unstated in the consulted synopsis.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan25.5

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance6/10

high confidence

Quality consensus6.4/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 52.26 base × 48.8% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Sonny Chiba, Isao Natsuyagi, Kôji Naka, Jun Etoh, Ryô Hayami

Edition by edition

Releases & formats

5 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

These listings do not establish a best edition. Use the specifications to shortlist compatible releases, then follow the source to verify details and availability.

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