GoShogun: The Time Étranger (1985): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 1985, GoShogun: The Time Étranger is an action, animation and science fiction film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama, running about 90 minutes. “In The Face Of Inevitability, Would You Accept It, Or Struggle To The End?” — that tagline sets the tone.

What it’s about. Forty years after the events of the TV series, Remy Shimada, ex-pilot of the GoShogun, suffers a terrible accident while on her way to a meeting with her former robot-piloting comrades. While they rush to the hospital, Remy floats between life and death. She sees visions of her life when she was young, and stranger still, experiences a hallucination of being with her friends, all of them young again, in a mysterious city filled with hostile fanatics. Far from being the reunion Remy hoped for, a ghastly letter arrives for each member of the team that predicts their gruesome deaths. Slated to die in two days, both in reality and in her dream, Remy struggles to find a way out of the City of Fate, relying on the memories of her friends to see her through, even as they surround her death bed in the waking world.

Who’s in it. GoShogun: The Time Étranger stars Kaneto Shiozawa as Leonardo Medici Bundle (voice), Daisuke Gori as Commander Kernagul (voice), Shôjirô Kihara as Suegni Cuttnal (voice) and Hideyuki Tanaka as Killy Gagler (voice), among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 7.2/10, GoShogun: The Time Étranger has been warmly received by audiences.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch GoShogun: The Time Étranger page.

If you liked it. Fans of GoShogun: The Time Étranger tend to enjoy The Dark Knight, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Inception and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.