Sengoku Jieitai 1549 (Samurai Commando: Mission 1549)
Director: N/A
Cast: Eguchi Yosuke ,Suzuki Kyoka , Kaga Takeshi, Ayase Haruka, Kitamura Kazuki
This is the second movie adaptation of a novel written by Ryo Hanmura. The first being the campy and fun, 1979 "G.I. Samurai". Starring cult favorite action star Sonny Chiba. Notably, the two movies have very little in common besides their basic plot-outline.
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 (KAGA Takeshi), 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, opening up widening time-space 'holes' all over Japan.
Kashima (EGUCHI Yosuke), formerly a confidant of Matoba, and a member of his disbanded special forces 'F Unit', decide to go into the distant past with 2nd Lieutenant Kanzaki (SUZUKI Kyoka), who was responsible for the accident, as part of the 'Romeo' rescue unit. They have only 74 hours and 27 minutes to save Matoba and his men stop present-day Japan from vanishing; any longer and the fluctuation in time will leave them behind forever.
Kashima and the Romeo Unit undertake the risky 'time slip' back to 1549, only to find Matoba alive and well. To preserve himself and his men in that war-torn age, he has quit the Self-Defense Force and taken the place of the historical warlord Oda Nobunaga, in whose guise he is attempting to make himself king of Japan. Leading his army, he has formed around his 'Heavens Guide'; he seeks to rest history, to remake modern Japan into a powerful state capable of ruling through strength.
The Oda army assaults the Romeo Unit. Under the waves of attackers in cooperation with the 3rd Special Experimental Company and its equipment, Kashima and his comrades lose one man after another. To make matters worse, Mataba has in this ancient time build a terrifying weapon with the intention of tampering with history by turning the entire Kanto plain (area surrounding modern day Tokyo) to ashes.
Can Kashima and Kanzaki stop Matoba as Oda Nobunaga and his threat to the present? What is their responsibility toward the future?
2005 Color Fullscreen
Japanese with Removable English Subtitles
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