Samurai Commando: Mission 1549 (ENG SUB)

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Sales: $ 14.08 + $ 4.00 (shipping fee)

Japanese

English & Traditional Chinese

2 VCDs Box Set

Yosuke Eguchi , Kyoka Suzuki , Ayase Haruka & Kitamura Kazuki

2006 Release

Samurai Commando: Mission 1549 – a remake of classic cult film GI Samurai – is one seriously silly piece of work. With a plot line built around modern day soldiers warped back in time to Japan’s Warring States period in which they do full on battle with clans of warring samurai, the film could be nothing but B but when the concept is further accented with resolutely straight faced performances and a wild disregard for internal logic that sees half a squad of military fighters construct a massive castle complex with working oil refinery in under two years while also cooking up the belief that nuking Mount Fuji is the key to a more prosperous future it is elevated to high camp.

The film opens on a secretive Japan Self Defense Force base where a new shielding system designed to protect electronic equipment from solar flare distortion is being tested. The system fails and fails spectacularly, generating a circular field that swaps a large patch of modern day real estate with its equivalent real estate from more than four hundred years previous, taking the entire squadron of soldiers and all of their equipment with it. Two years later dimensional holes have begun to open up, hungry voids that absorb everything around them into nothingness, and the holes are growing rapidly. History, it seems, is being re-written and our entire dimension is in danger of collapse. And so the original experiment is recreated, this time intentionally, with a second squadron sent back on a rescue mission.