One of the most exciting features of the iconic beloved franchise is, for some reason, taking a backwards step, and the fans ...

In 2023, the Ahsoka show introduced an entirely new type of Jedi, with Star Wars finally shedding light on exactly what it is ...

A “Ninth Jedi” spinoff has been teased for years now, including a 2021 quote from Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, founder of the animation studio Production I.G., saying he would love to see Kamiyama ...

In Chapter 13: The Jedi, Ahsoka Tano becomes a visual embodiment of samurai cinema. Her movements are silent, purposeful. She appears from mist, strikes with precision, and vanishes again. The duel ...

As Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025 approaches, there’s no better time to revisit a truth that’s long been encoded in the DNA of the galaxy far, far away: Star Wars is deeply influenced by Japanese ...

Last Jedi director Rian Johnson has, in the character-killing stakes as in so many things, ... Some of us would prefer the Jedi to be more samurai than superhero, and that’s fine.

Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny review: Dulled with age; ... You pick a Jedi, you jump into a vaguely canon-appropriate battle, you fight Star Wars bad guys.

In Star Wars: Jedi Knights, a new Marvel Comics series, Marc Guggenheim tells a story of Qui-Gon, Yoda, Mace Windu and other Jedi before they were blinded ... “The Jedi are, essentially, samurai.

Are the Jedi cool samurai or boo-worthy space cops? Christian Black / Lucasfilm. For 16 years, Star Wars fans’ collective perception of the Jedi was based entirely on a few characters featured ...

I loved Ghost of Tsushima. And I guess maybe it’s sort of a Jedi wish fulfillment, that game, in a way with Jedi having been spawned out of samurai. He spoke in appreciation of the game’s combat ...

For all that Star Wars is rooted in samurai film, ... But in The Acolyte, that’s how every Mae-versus-Jedi fight begins, because a Jedi won’t draw on an unarmed foe.

Mifune’s Jedi-inspiring stage costume and Mercury’s favourite cherry blossom gown are among the exhibits on display. The show has been expanded since its London outing for the final stop on ...