With moe arai, kasumi arimura, yoshiki arizono, kyosuke hamao. Join us as we travel through time and space to fix history and make new friends. A modern japanese girl falls down a well and because she is the reincarnation of a shrine priestess with a sacred magic jewel in her, she is able to travel back to the feudal era where both demons and samurai roam the land. Below, we look at the best and worst movies featuring time travel, starting with the good.
Japan is at war in the samurai era some 440 years ago. Samurai warriors crossover fanfiction archive with over 87 stories. After the first two tmnt movies, this one breaks with the shredder theme fortunately as shredder seemed about as hard to kill as the first terminator and takes the brothers back in time. Batman travels back in time to the samurai era of japan. Samurai are those who follow bushido, the classical japanese warrior code, as a way of life, and usually hone their skill in combat to make their way in the world or perfect themselves. With shinichi chiba, jun eto, moeko ezawa, ryo hayami. Batman travels back in time to the samurai era of japan and fights with jokers samurai. Characters in a samurai anime may be in service to a liege lord, or ronin types who serve none but themselves. The science is loosely based in theoretical physics, with quantum mechanics and wormholes as common themes. In time travel anime, and despite the existence time loops, stable and malleable timelines and parallel dimensions, theres really only two types of travel that one can accomplish. Todays big filmy list looks at the best ever samurai movies. The celebration of the time travel tale has reached a perhaps.
Sonny chiba does a good job portraying the tragic lt. Chiba shinichi, born january 22, 1939, also known as sonny chiba, is a japanese actor, singer, film producer, film director, and martial artist chiba was one of the first actors to achieve stardom through his skills in martial arts, initially in japan and later before an international audience. Iba, sees this as the perfect opportunity to realize his dream of. In short the movies worth watching, it makes the viewer regret that there are not more movies made with a similar premise, and at the same time offers some hefty hints as to why a movie like g. With ryo nishikido, fuku suzuki, rie tomosaka, keisuke horibe. It ends with 2 other characters meeting up, as the perfect. I remember that is starts with a girl receiving messages on a broken phone. To achieve this, he teams his troops up with those of kagatori, a samurai daimyo.
Music movies tv comedy games books drink politics travel. A squadron of japanese selfdefense force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their countrys warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme shogun. A growing fan base mocked up book covers, movie posters, and posted related music videos to youtube. Its a younger japanese guy in a funny blue jumpsuit that goes back to log the lives of samurai in the 16th century i believe. They lost in the battle of shiroyama, and the samurai era came to an end. Samurai, sengoku jieitai time slip and sengoku self defense force is a 1979 japanese science fiction action film focusing on the adventures of a modernday japan ground selfdefense force jgsdf and japan maritime selfdefense force jmsdf team that accidentally travels in time to the warring states period. Samurai jack sought one since the beginning of his quest to return to the past and destroy aku once and for all so that the future never come to pass. These range from the classic easterns of akira kurosawa, to the modern day epics that pay such homage to his work. Some of the qualifying factors taken into consideration for a series being deemed great are, entertainment value, popularity, lasting appeal, quality of writing, originality and significance to the medium of anime. Respondents to his post dubbed his story rome, sweet rome and demanded more details. This is a broad genre, just from a the standpoint of how much history falls within it.
Anyhow, i halfasleep watched a semirecent japanese movie with english subtitles about some time traveling journalists who go back in time to document the lives of everyday people. These titles either focus on the concept of time travel or include time travel, often. If you know of a movie thats missing from this list even if its not found on. Time portals are magical gateways into the past or future, and were major plot devices throughout samurai jack. Your mission is to go back to japan under the shogunate, and. Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time, usually with an invention called a time machine. Based on the manga series samurai sensei by kuroe esusuke. Come in to read stories and fanfics that span multiple fandoms in the samurai warriors universe.
Origin of the samurai timeline timetoast timelines. Origin of the samurai timeline created by bettiszt14. Television programs that incorporate time travel in only few of their episodes may be found in list of television series that include time travel. Of course, when you decide to depict them in anime, then the possibilities multiply endlessly. And its why were so excited to present paste s list of the 50 best samurai films of all time. Pages in category films about time travel the following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 407 total. The list below covers notable television series for which time travel is central to the premise and direction of the plot and setting. A timetraveling samurai finds himself in modern japan in this adaptation of. The tank featured in the movie was even built entirely from scratch. Iba, sees this as the perfect opportunity to realize his dream of becoming the ruler of.
The time travel theme gives the characters depth and makes the movie riveting. This list of top 100 anime series of all time will feature what i consider to be the 100 greatest anime series ever made. Samurai 7 is based loosely upon kurosawa akiras famous movie seven samurai shichinin no samurai. Inuyasha is not what you would generally think of when you think of a time travel series, but that is exactly what it is. He believes he can time travel using a digital camera stashed in a jet scarp yard. If you like time slip you are looking for rough, offbeat and serious movies about with time travel, samurai, military, soldier, battles, war and adventure themes of action, adventure and scifi genre shot in japan. With these near endlessly varied depictions of samurai, we had a lot of fun narrowing down the contenders for the top 10 samurai anime. As a german and a canadian living in europe, we share a few tips and needtoknows for germany travel. There is a joke about her tshirt i love dick in reference to philip k dick. If you know of a movie thats missing from this list even if its not found on mydramalist please let me know, and ill add it. Fun movie, its worth tracking down the stunt work and action sequences are amazing. Here, the time travel is played for laughs, but in other time travel movies typically, sciencefiction films the aim might be to scare, thrill, or provoke deep thought. Through dangerous encounters and a bit of luck, seven samurai of varying specialties and experience are gathered for an epic battle against the bandits and the merchants that influence them.
Time travel stories are universally loved around the world. Angry ex samurai revolted against the meiji in the satsuma rebellion in 1877. Long and weird samurai with a scifi time travel twist movie features a japanese defense force group transported back to the warring state time period and immediately involved in armed conflicts that pretty much decimates them. Samurai is a 1979 japanese science fiction action film focusing on the adventures of a modernday japan ground selfdefense force jgsdf and japan maritime selfdefense force jmsdf team that accidentally travels in time to. A high school student time travels to the era alongside classmates who are all uniformly weak at history. This list may not reflect recent changes learn more. Complete list of time travel anime, and watch online. Movie talk movies where modern military units go back in time and kick ass.
These titles either focus on the concept of time travel or include time travel, often involving a person in a. Iba though he doesnt really use much martial arts here, his. Movies where modern military units go back in time dvd. Erwin responded to their wishes and expanded on his original story, and with input from other reddit users, eventually completed a short story. Instead of focusing on the awesome potential of time travel, though, many of these shows and movies point out the dangers and dark side of it. Japanese schoolgirl breaks the biggest rule of time travel time.
After praying for a new job, a samurai is transported through time to todays japan. Time travel has been fascinating us for a long time, and its given rise to a whole collection of time travelling movies, tv shows, and, of course, anime. Time travel is a recurrent theme in science fiction television programs. A boy and his samurai is a 2010 japanese time travel comedy film, directed by yoshihiro nakamura.