An accident during tests of an anti-plasma artificial magnetic shield at Japan's Ground Self Defense Force East Fuji practice range sends the 3rd Special Experimental Company, under Colonel Matoba on a time-slip 460 years into the past, into 'the Age of civil War'. At the same time an imaginary-number anomaly thought to be caused by interference from the past begins eroding the present.
Practical Effects
Practical effects make every explosion feel gloriously handmade.
Direction
Tezuka squeezes maximum chaos from a modest budget.
Director
Masaaki Tezuka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Masaaki Tezuka previously worked as assistant director on multiple Godzilla films, explaining the love of practical military hardware.
The film explicitly references the 2000 novel 'G.I. Samurai' by Ryo Hanmura, which itself became a 1979 cult classic—this is essentially the big-budget remake nobody asked for but everyone deserved.
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