![]() Each film has a different director, and each of the directors works with one of seven major Japanese animation studios. ![]() The new series from Disney+, titled Star Wars: Visions, takes all the familiar iconography from Star Wars and builds nine anime short films. ![]() ![]() Ronin (voiced by Masaki Terasoma in Japanese and Brian Tee in the English dub) in a scene from the Star Wars: Visions short The Duel, exclusively on Disney+. In line with so many aspects of Star Wars being taken from Japanese culture, Lucasfilm is now giving its galaxy far, far away an anime installment. Star Wars’ most famous figures - the Jedi - even take their name from jidaigeki, the Japanese word for period dramas. ![]() Between taking entire scenes from legendary director Akira Kurosawa to modeling Darth Vader’s appearance after samurai armor, Star Wars is essentially a samurai movie with a sci-fi facelift. It’s no secret George Lucas drew heavily on Japanese film when he began creating Star Wars.
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