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Arisaka Rifle

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The Arisaka Rifle was the official service bolt action rifle for the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces from 1897 to 1945. The First Model of the Arisaka Rifle was designed by Colonel Nariakira Arisaka in 1897. There are five major variants - the Type 30, 35, 38, 44, and the 99. Of all these rifles, the Type 38 long rifle and Type 99 standard (or short) rifles were the most common, and were the rifle most likely to be encountered during the war in the Pacific. The Type 38 was chambered in 6.5x50mmSR, while the Type 99 was chambered in 7.7x58mm.

The early models of the Type 99 long (discontinued after less than 40,000 were made) and standard rifles contained a folding wire monopod, flip up 1,500 meter calibrated ladder sights with fold-down sidebars for leading aircraft, with the hinge of the bar 100 knots, center notch 200 knots, and edge of the bar 300 knots (perhaps the most over-optimistic sight fitted to a smallarm since the 1,000-meter calibrated sights of the Mauser C96), chrome plated bores, and a dust cover. As the war went on the quality had dropped. These late war rifles were known as substitute standard rifles (commonly called "last ditch" rifles) and were very crudely manufactured with most missing the accessories of the earlier models. Later production substitute standard rifles also had a non-adjustable rear sight and wooden buttplate, and some even replaced the sling with a simple rope passed through a hole in the stock and tied around the barrel (commonly called "rope hole" rifles).

Most variants of the Arisaka rifle have at least one hole on the top of the receiver. This hole (or series of holes) serves to ensure that gas vents in a safe direction in the event of a failure. This feature is omitted in most video game models.

There were various sub types, like the 6.5mm Type 97 sniper rifle based off of the Type 38 long rifle (essentially a completely normal Type 38 with a 2.5x sniper scope added), the 7.7mm Type 99 sniper rifle based off of the Type 99 standard or short rifle, or the 6.5mm Type 1 take down paratrooper model converted from Type 38 carbines, but these rifles were rare specialty rifles and only several hundred to several thousand were made of any of these versions.

Related to the Arisaka is the Type I long rifle, a rifle made in Italy for the Japanese Navy that utilized the Carcano action but a magazine, stock, and barrel based on the Type 38 long rifle.

Specifications

  • Type: Rifle
  • Caliber: 7.7x58mm (Type 99 standard/short and long rifles, Type 2 paratrooper rifle), 6.5x50mmSR (Type 30 carbines and long rifles, Type 35 long rifle, Type 38 carbine and long rifle, Type 44 Carbine, Type I long rifle, Type 1 paratrooper rifle)
  • Capacity: 5 rounds
  • Fire Modes: Single (Bolt Action)

Arisaka Type 30

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Arisaka Type 30 rifle - 6.5x50mmSR Arisaka
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Arisaka Type 30 Carbine - 6.5x50mmSR Arisaka

Specifications

(1897–1945)

  • Type: Bolt Action Rifle
  • Caliber: 6.5x50mm Arisaka
    .303 British
    6.5x54mm Mannlicher–Schönauer
  • Weight: 3.95 kg (8 lb 11 oz) rifle, 3.2 kg (7 lb 1 oz) carbine
  • Length: 1,274 mm (50.2 in) rifle, 964 mm (38.0 in) carbine
  • Barrel length: 790 mm (31 in) rifle, 480 mm (19 in) carbine
  • Feed System: 5-round internal magazine
  • Muzzle velocity 765 m/s (2,510 ft/s)

The Arisaka Type 30 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Films

Title Actor Character Notes Date
The Blue Express Chinese Soldiers and workers 1929
The Battle of Port Arthur (203 kochi) Makoto Satô Pvt. Uschiwaka 1980
Imperial Japanese Soldiers
The Golden Compass Samoyed tribesmen 2007
Courier of Special Importance (Kurersky osoboy vazhnosti) Imperial Japanese Soldiers 2013

Television

Title Actor Character Note Date
20th of December (20-e dekabrya) Revolutionary sailors Seen in documentary footage 1982

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Tannenberg "Type 30 Arisaka" 2019

Anime

Title Character Note Date
801 T.T.S. Airbats Imperial Japanese Army soldiers 1994-1996
Golden Kamuy - Season 1 Saichi Sugimoto w/o Type 30 bayonet 2018
Imperial Japanese Army soldiers
Golden Kamuy - Season 2 Saichi Sugimoto w/o Type 30 bayonet 2018
Imperial Japanese Army soldiers
Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san Imperial Japanese Army soldier 2018
Golden Kamuy (OVA) Saichi Sugimoto w/o Type 30 bayonet 2018 - 2020
Superior Private Hyakunosuke Ogata
Imperial Japanese Army soldiers
Golden Kamuy - Season 3 Saichi Sugimoto 2020
Hajime Tsukishima
Hyakunosuke Ogata
Imperial Japanese Army soldiers


Arisaka Type 38

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Arisaka Type 38 rifle - 6.5x50mmSR Arisaka
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Arisaka Type 38 Carbine - 6.5x50mmSR Arisaka

Specifications

(1905–1945)

  • Type: Bolt Action Rifle
  • Caliber: 6.5x50mm Arisaka
  • Weight: 9 lb 4 oz (4.19 kg) rifle, 7.3 lbs (3.3 kg) carbine
  • Length: 50.2 in (1,275 millimetres) rifle, 38 in (96.6 cm) carbine
  • Barrel length: 31 in (800 millimetres) rifle, 19.2 in (48.7 cm) carbine
  • Feed System: 5-round magazine
  • Muzzle velocity 762 m/s (2,500 ft/s)
  • Effective firing range 366–457 m (400–500 yd)
  • Maximum firing range 2.37 km (1.47 mi)

The Arisaka Type 38 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Films

Title Actor Character Notes Date
Storm Over Asia (Potomok Chingis-Khana) Red Partisan 1928
My Motherland (Moya Rodina) Bari Haydarov Wang Li Chang 1933
Kuomintang Army soldiers
Chapaev Stepan Shkurat Petrovich 1934
Red Army men and White Army soldier
Dzhulbars Peasant 1935
Frontier (Aerograd) Boris Dobronravov Aniky Shabanov 1935
Leonid Kan Japanese agent 1
I. Kim Japanese agent 2
sectants
Alamases's Gorge (Ushchelye Alamasov) Li Den Ten Wáng Jì Liáng 1937
Ivan Koval-Samborsky Vyacheslav Antonovich Viskovsky
Enemy soldiers, partisans
Gaichi Yuliya Tsay Nan Carbine 1938
Erdni Mandzhiyev Gaichi
Viktor Tretyakov Yanyga
Georgiy Subbotin Sapov
The Defense of Volochayevsk (Volochayevskiye dni) Boris Blinov Bublik 1938
Bari Haydarov Japanese Soldier
Enemy soldiers, partisans
Soviet Border (Na granitse) Stepan Krylov White Cossack 1938
Yelena Tyapkina Stepanida Vlasova
Zoya Fyodorova Varvara
Japanese soldiers and White Cossack
The Sea Outpost (Morskoy post) Japanese soldiers 1938
Red Tanks (Tankisty) German soldiers Subsitution for Mauser rifles 1939
Disappearance of "Oryol" (Gibel "Orla") British soldiers 1940
The Mysterious Island (Tainstvennyy ostrov) Aleksey Krasnopolsky Cyrus Smith 1941
Andrey Andriyenko-Zemskov Bonadventure Pencroff
Robert Ross Neb
How the Steel Was Tempered (Kak zakalyalas stal) Viktor Bubnov Artyom Korchagin Carbine 1942
Daughters of China (Zhong Hua nu er) Zheng Zhang Hu Xiuzhi 1949
Japanese soldiers, The Chinese Red Army
Beachhead Imperial Japanese Soldiers 1954
Incident in the Taiga (Sluchay v tayge) converted shotgun 1954
Battle Cry Japanese soldiers 1955
Yesterday's Enemy Japanese soldiers 1959
Cruelty (Zhestokost) Georgiy Yumatov Veniamin Malyshev 1959
The Red Detachment of Women (Hong se niang zi jun) Xijuan Zhu Wu Qionghua 1961
Niu Tie A´Gui
The local militia, The Chinese Red Army
55 Days at Peking Japanese soldiers, Chinese "Boxers" 1963
None But the Brave Homare Suguro Lance Cpl. Hirano 1965
The Chief of Chukotka (Nachalnik Chukotki) White Army soldier Type 38 Carbine with bayonet 1966
Japan's Longest Day Japanese soldiers 1967
Tora! Tora! Tora! Imperial Japanese Navy sailors 1970
Listen on the Other Side (Daisny tserguudee sonsotsgoo!) Japanese soldiers Bayonet attached, standart and carbine versions 1971
The Bamboo House of Dolls Imperial Japanese Army soldiers 1973
And on the Pacific... (I na Tikhom Okeane...) Imperial Japanese Army soldiers 1974
My Destiny (Moya sudba) Seen in documentary footage 1974
MacArthur Japanese soldiers 1977
Death Force Joonee Gamboa Hichigawa 1978
Dawn of the Dead Gun store in the mall 1978
1941 Japanese Imperial Navy sailors 1979
Across the Gobi and the Khingan (Govi Khyangand tulaldsan ni) Imperial Japanese Soldiers bayonet attached 1981
Empire of the Sun Imperial Japanese Soldiers 1987
Magnificent Warriors Richard Ng Luk 1987
Michelle Yeoh Fok Ming-Ming
Imperial Japanese Soldiers
The Last Emperor Japanese soldiers 1987
The Manchurian Variant (Manchzhurskiy variant) Imperial Japanese soldiers 1989
Under Northern Lights aka Under Aurora (Pod severnym siyaniyem aka Orora no shita de) Japanese Soldiers 1990
Dreams Yoshitaka Zushi Pvt. Noguchi 1990
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah Imperial Japanese Soldiers 1991
Fist of Legend Imperial Japanese Soldiers 1994
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre Imperial Japanese soldiers 1995
The Thin Red Line Imperial Japanese Soldiers 1998
To End All Wars Imperial Japanese Soldiers 2001
Pearl Harbor Imperial Japanese Soldiers 2001
2009: Lost Memories Japanese Soldiers 2002
The Great Raid Imperial Japanese Soldiers 2005
Warbirds Imperial Japanese Soldiers 2006
Kokoda Imperial Japanese Soldiers 2006
The Border Tommi Korpela Heikki Kiljunen With bayonet 2007
Philosophy of a Knife on the wall 2008
The Children of Huang Shi 2008
Australia Japanese soldiers 2008
Ip Man Imperial Japanese Soldiers 2008
When They Cry: Reshuffle Imperial Japanese Soldiers 2009
Samurai Avenger: The Blind Wolf Maxx Maulion Prison Officer 2009
City of Life and Death Nakaizumi Hideo Kadokawa Masao With Model 30 bayonet 2009
Imperial Japanese Soldiers
John Rabe Imperial Japanese Soldiers 2009
Back to 1942 2010
Let the Bullets Fly Fan Liao Three 2010
Soldiers and henchmen
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen resistance fighters some rubber props 2010
Japanese troops
French troops
German troops
Shanghai police
Death and Glory in Changde Wenkang Yuan Capt. Feng Baohua 2010
Mengwei Xie Er Hu, Miao youth
Imperial Japanese soldiers
Shanghai Japanese Imperial soldiers 2010
The Flowers of War Imperial Japanese Soldiers 2011
My Way Dong-gun Jang Kim Jun-Shik w/ Model 30 bayonets 2011
Kim In-kwon Tatsuo Hasegawa
Fan Bingbing Shirai
Imperial Japanese Soldiers
Oba: The Last Samurai Imperial Japanese Soldiers w/ Model 30 bayonets 2011
Cold Steel (Bian di lang yan) Peter Ho Wu Liangfeng 2011
Rongguang Yu Colonel Zhang
Japanese and Chinese troops
The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake (Jian hu nu xia Qiu Jin) Xin Xin Xiong Ao Feng 2011
Chinese rebels and Imperial soldiers
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins Imperial Japanese soldiers 2012
Emperor Japanese soldiers 2013
The Railway Man Imperial Japanese soldiers 2013
The Wolverine Japanese soldiers 2013
The Taking of Tiger Mountain bandits 2014
Unbroken Japanese soldiers 2014
The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale Seok-won Jeong Ryu 2015
Yoo-Bin Sung Suk-yi
Sang-ho Kim Chil-goo
Imperial Japanese Army soldiers, Korean hunters
Attack On Titan Garrison soldier 2015
Bravo V Communist terrorists 2015
Hacksaw Ridge Imperial Japanese soldiers 2016
Haunted Forest Jameson Blake RJ 2017
The Eight Hundred Imperial Japenese soldiers and sailors 2020
Chinese soldiers

Television

Show Title / Episode Actor Character Notes Air Date
Baa Baa Black Sheep Imperial Japanese Soldiers 1976 - 1978
The Cowra Breakout Junichi Ishida Junji Hayashi 1984
Alan David Lee Stan Davidson
Wounded Stones (Ranenyye kamni) Igor Slobodskoy Akhmat 1988
Gendarmes, peasants
KochiKame Jun Tsuchiuchi Fake ghost (Ep. 03) 2009
Kokoda Imperial Japanese Soldiers 2010
The Pacific Imperial Japanese Soldiers 2010
Parer's War Japanese soldiers Rifles and carbines 2014
Man in the High Castle, The - Season 1 Japanese military and police 2015
Man in the High Castle, The - Season 2 Japanese military and police 2016
Man in the High Castle, The - Season 3 Joel de la Fuente Chief Inspector Kido, Japanese military and police Some with Type 30 bayonets 2018
NCIS: Hawai'i - Season 1 Japanese soldiers Ep. "Impostor" 2021 - 2022

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Notes Release Date
Commandos 2: Men of Courage "Japanese Rifle" incorrectly shown with box magazine 2001
Forgotten Hope Type 38 Carbine 2003
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun Unusable; used by Imperial Japanese Soldiers 2003
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault "M38 Arisaka Rifle" 2004
Hidden & Dangerous 2 2003
Alliance of Valiant Arms 2007
The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific 2007
Karma Online Type 38 Carbine 2011
Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm "Arisaka Type 38" 2011
Glorious Missions Non-player weapon, used by Imperial Japanese Army Soldiers and Terrorists 2012
Far East War 2013
Battlefield 1 "Arisaka Type 38" Introduced in "Turning Tides" DLC (2017) 2016
Call of Duty: WWII "Type 38" Introduced in "Blitzkrieg" event (2018) 2017
Tannenberg "Type 38 Arisaka" Introduced in "Latvian Expansion" 2019
Call of Duty: Vanguard "Type 99" 2021
Enlisted Arisaka Type 38 2021
Arisaka Type 38 Carbine
Arisaka Type 38 with Type 100 Grenade Launcher

Anime

Title Character Note Date
Momotaro: Sacred Sailors Imperial Japanese army soldiers 1945
Silver Fang Gohei Takeda 1986
Lupin III: Voyage to Danger Inspector Zenigata 1993
The Cockpit Private Utsunomiya Ep. 3 "Knight of the Iron Dragon" 1993
Japanese soldiers
Kochikame 1996 - 2005
Sakura Wars OVA Imperial Japanese Army soldiers 1997 - 1999
Sakura Taisen: École de Paris Norimichi Sakomizu 2003
Zipang 2004 - 2005
Night Raid 1931 2010
Shiki Oitaro Sato 2011
Gosick Japanese soldiers Ep. "Looking at Eternity over the Grim Reaper's Shoulder" 2011
Persona 3: The Movie "Midsummer Knight's Dream" 2013 - 2014
Giovanni's Island seen in Soviet jeeps 2014
Survival Game Club! 2014
Aria the Scarlet Ammo AA 2015
Joker Game 2016
In this Corner of the World Imperial Japanese Navy soldiers 2016
Girls' Last Tour Yuuri, Chito 2017
Golden Kamuy - Season 2 Hajime Tsukishima, Lt. Tsurumi Ep. 16 2018
Sirius the Jaeger Japanese soldiers Ep. 04, 05, 07, 08, 09 2018


Arisaka Type 44

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Arisaka Type 44 Carbine - 6.5x50mmSR Arisaka

Specifications

(1911–1945)

  • Type: Bolt Action Cavalry-Carbine
  • Caliber: 6.5x50mm Arisaka
  • Weight: 3.3 kg (7 lb 4 oz)
  • Length: 966 mm (3 ft 2 in)
  • Barrel length: 487 mm (1 ft 7.2 in)
  • Feed System: 5-round internal magazine
  • Muzzle velocity 761 m/s (2,500 ft/s)
  • Effective firing range 366 m (400 yd)
  • Maximum firing range 2.01 km (1.25 mi)

The Arisaka Type 44 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Films

Title Actor Character Notes Date
The Taking of Tiger Mountain Hanyu Zhang Yang Zirong 2014

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Notes Release Date
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault "M44 Carbine Rifle" 2004
Call of Duty: WWII "Black Hornet" Cosmetic variant of Arisaka Type 38 2017
Enlisted 2021


Arisaka Type 99

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Arisaka Type 99 standard rifle - 7.7x58mm. Also sometimes referred to as the 'short rifle' when compared to the limited run 'long rifle'.
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Arisaka Type 99 standard rifle with monopod - 7.7x58mm
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Arisaka Type-99 Substitute Standard - 7.7x58mm. Also known as 'Last ditch rifle'. Late war simplified model
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Arisaka Type 99 long rifle - 7.7x58mm. Manufactured only between 1939 - 1940 and was rarely see during the war.

Specifications

(1939–1945)

  • Type: Bolt Action Rifle
  • Caliber: 7.7x58mm Arisaka
  • Weight: 3.8 kg (8.4 lb)
  • Length: 1,118 mm (44.0 in)
    1,258 mm (49.5 in)
  • Barrel length: 657 mm (25.9 in)
  • Feed System: 5-round internal box magazine, stripper clip loaded
  • Muzzle velocity 730 m/s (2,400 ft/s)

The Arisaka Type 99 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Film

Title Actor Character Notes Date
Gung Ho! Chinese Troops 1943
Dead Reckoning War Trophy 1947
The Naked City 1948
Sands of Iwo Jima Imperial Japanese Soldiers 1949
Thunder Road Trevor Bardette Vernon Doolin 1958
Hell to Eternity Japanese Army 1960
Merrill's Marauders Japanese Army 1962
None But the Brave Imperial Japanese Soldiers short rifles and substitute standard rifle 1965
Beach Red Imperial Japanese Soldiers 1967
Hell in the Pacific Imperial Japanese Soldiers 1968
Too Late the Hero Imperial Japanese Soldiers 1970
Joe Peter Boyle Joe Curran Short rifle 1970
The Bamboo House of Dolls Birte Tove Jennifer 1973
Lieh Lo Tsui Kuo-Tung
Roska Rozen Mary
Niki Wane Elizabeth
Hsia-ying Lo Huang Hsia
Sang-mi Ko Hu Li-Chu
Hye-suk Lee Hung Yu-Lan
Imperial Japanese Army soldiers
Game of Death Extras 1978
Attack Force Z Imperial Japanese Soldiers 1982
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence Imperial Japanese Soldiers 1983
Magnificent Warriors Chindy Lau Chin-Chin 1987
Tung-Shing Yee Sky 1
Richard Ng Luk
Lee Man-Tai Brother Wang
Imperial Japanese Soldiers
Farewell To The King Gerry Lopez Gwai 1989
The Shore of Salvation (Bereg spaseniya) Dmitry Matveev Lt. Dyakonov 1990
Boris Nevzorov Semyon Nikulin
Aleksandr Slastin Ivan Myakota
Vitaliy Serov Oles Dobrysh
Ri Yong-ho Yu Chun
Mercenaries
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes Imperial Japanese Soldiers 1990
Leprechaun 4: In Space Tim Colceri MSgt. Metal Head Hooker Bayonet Attached 1997
Windtalkers Adam Beach Pvt. Ben Yahzee Substitute Standard 2002
Imperial Japanese Soldiers
Flags of our Fathers Imperial Japanese Soldiers Substitute Standard 2006
Letters from Iwo Jima Imperial Japanese Soldiers Substitute Standard 2006
Assembly (Ji jie hao) 2007
Philosophy of a Knife archive footage 2008
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 2008
Oba: The Last Samurai Imperial Japanese Soldiers w/ Model 30 bayonets 2011
Emperor w/ monopod 2012
Unbroken Japanese soldiers w/ monopod 2014
Bravo V Communist terrorists 2015
Arisaka Maja Salvador Mariano 2021
Imperial Japanese soldiers

Television

Show Title Actor Character Notes / Episode Air Date
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 Imperial Japanese Soldiers "A Quality of Mercy" (S3E15) 1961
Gilligan's Island - Season 1 Bob Denver Gilligan "So Sorry, My Island Now" (S01E15), "Diogenes, Won't You Please Go Home?" (S01E31) 1965
Vito Scotti Japanese soldier
Alan Hale Jr. The Skipper with Type 30 bayonet / "Forget Me Not" (S01E30)
Baa Baa Black Sheep Imperial Japanese Soldiers 1976-1978
NCIS - Season 2 Imperial Japanese Soldiers "Call of Silence" (S2E07) 2004
NCIS: Hawai'i - Season 1 Japanese soldiers Ep. "Impostor" 2021 - 2022

Video Games

Game Title Mods Notes Release Date
Deadly Dozen Pacific Theater "Arisaka Rifle" 2002
Forgotten Hope 2003
Call of Duty: World at War "Arisaka" 2008
Call of Duty: World at War - Final Fronts "Type 99" 2008
Men of War 2009
Call of Duty: Black Ops "Arisaka" 2010
7554 "Arisaka" long rifle configuration 2011
Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm "Arisaka Type 99" 2013
Far East War 2013
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly "Type 99 Arisaka" bayonet, dust cover and monopod 2014
Enlisted Arisaka Type 99 Early 2021
Arisaka Type 99 Late
Arisaka Type 99 Long
Arisaka Type 99 Short

Anime

Title Character Note Date
Inu x Boku SS hanged on the wall "Kagerō" (S1E11 2012

Animation

Title Characters Notation Date
Archer - Season 6 1st Lieutenant Kintaru "Ken" Sato 2015

Arisaka Type I

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Arisaka Type I - 6.5x50mmSR Arisaka

The rifle can be found under several names. Arisaka Type I, Type I, Type I Carcano and Carcano-Arisaka. The Type I Arisaka (イ式小銃 I-shiki shōjū, pronounced "Type-eye" or "Type-ee"; the "I" stands for "Italy") was an Italo-Japanese bolt-action rifle designed by Fabbrica d'Armi Terni in 1938 and produced by various arsenals in Italy from 1938 to 1939. A foreign version of the Arisaka rifle, the Type I in essence was a version of the Type 38 Arisaka produced in Italy. It is commonly referred to as the "Type 1"; this is a result of misinterpreting the "I" as a Roman numeral for for "1" (or simply a "1" itself), and should not be treated as an actual name for the weapon.

Specifications

(1938–1939)

  • Number built: 60000 – 140000 (disputed)
  • Type: Bolt Action Rifle
  • Caliber: 6.5x50mmSR Arisaka
  • Weight: 8.75 pounds (3.97 kilograms)
  • Length: 49.8–50.8 inches (126–129 centimetres)
  • Barrel length: 30.8 inches (78 centimetres)
  • Feed System: 5-round internal magazine, stripper clip loaded

The Arisaka Type 1 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Notes Release Date
Enlisted 2021

Arisaka Type 2

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Arisaka Type 02 Paratrooper Takedown rifle - 7.7x58mm

Of note is that several productions between the 1960's and 80's have used the Type 2, often in sporterized form, for the cinematic effect of assembling together a sniper rifle, perhaps most notably in Dirty Harry. Today, original Type 2's command a high price in auctions as one of the rarest WW2 rifles, but back when these sporterizations were carried out, Arisakas in general had little collector value and market worth.


The Arisaka Type 2 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Film

Title Actor Character Notes Date
The Manchurian Candidate Laurence Harvey Raymond Shaw 1962
The Split Donald Sutherland Dave Negli Sporterized 1968
Dirty Harry Andrew Robinson The Scorpio Killer Sporterized 1971
The Spook Who Sat by the Door Cobras train 1973
Cleopatra Jones Mommy’s henchmen Sporterized 1973
The Deadly Tower Kurt Russell Charles Whitman Sporterized 1975
Cross Fire SAT sniper 2000
Midway Japanese soldiers 2019

Television

Show Title / Episode Actor Character Notes Air Date
Mission: Impossible Charles Maxwell Lazloff "Operation Rogosh" (S01E03) 1966
Peter Lupus Willy Armitage
Mission: Impossible Greg Morris Barney Collier "The Phoenix" (S02E23) 1968
Hawaii Five-O John Kerry Hitman (credited as Dix Kercheval) Season 7 Episode 17; Sporterized 1975
The A-Team - Season 1 Sporterized 1984-1985

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Notes Release Date
Men of War 2009

Arisaka Type 97 sniper rifle

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Arisaka Type 97 Sniper Rifle with 2.5x Kokura scope - 6.5x50mmSR Arisaka

Specifications

(1937–1945)

  • Type: Bolt Action Sniper Rifle
  • Caliber: 6.5x50mm Arisaka
  • Weight: 3.95 kg (8 lb 11 oz)
  • Length: 1,280 mm (50 in)
  • Barrel length: 797 mm (31.4 in)
  • Feed System: 5-round internal magazine, stripper clip loaded
  • Muzzle velocity 760 m/s (2,500 ft/s)

The Arisaka Type 97 sniper rifle and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Film

Title Actor Character Notes Date
Windtalkers Japanese sniper 2002
Hacksaw Ridge Imperial Japanese sniper 2016

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Notes Release Date
Commandos 2: Men of Courage "Japanese Sniper Rifle" incorrectly shown with box magazine 2001
Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm "Arisaka Type 97" 2013
Enlisted 2021

Arisaka Type 99 sniper rifle

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Arisaka Type 99 Sniper Rifle with 2.5x10 NTC Kogaku scope - 7.7x58mm Arisaka
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Arisaka Type 99 Sniper Rifle with 4x scope - 7.7x58mm Arisaka

Specifications

(19??–1945)

  • Type: Bolt Action Sniper Rifle
  • Feed System: 5-round internal box magazine, stripper clip loaded

The Arisaka Type 99 sniper rifle and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Television

Show Title / Episode Actor Character Notes Air Date
The Twilight Zone - Season 4 Dana Andrews Paul Driscoll 1963

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Notes Release Date
Forgotten Hope 2003
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault "Type 97 sniper rifle" incorrectly called a Type 97 sniper rifle 2004
Men of War 2009
Sniper Elite V2 "Type 99" "The Landwehr Canal Pack" DLC 2012
Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm "Arisaka Type 99 Sniper" 2013
Sniper Elite III "Type 99" "Axis Weapons" DLC Pack 2014
Battlefield V "Type 99" added with "War in the Pacific" (2019) 2018
Enlisted 2021