{"product_id":"g-i-samurai-limited-edition-blu-ray","title":"G.I. Samurai (Limited Edition) (Blu-ray)","description":"\u003ch1\u003eJapanese soldiers time travel to feudal era. Their lieutenant allies with samurai lord to become Shogun. Both seek power through warfare.\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eG.I. Samurai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e sees action superstar \u003cb\u003eSonny Chiba\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Street Fighter\u003c\/i\u003e) 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!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring 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 attack 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on a novel by \u003cb\u003eRyo Hanmura\u003c\/b\u003e and directed by \u003cb\u003eKosei Saito\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003ci\u003eNinja Wars\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eG.I. 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