Star Wars Samurai Japan-style

Fantastic idea - bringing the combined cool of the Star Wars franchise and samurai culture!

Created by artist Yoshi Isao and on display at Gift Show 2008 in Tokyo, these seem to be concepts for samurai-styled stormtroopers and a badass oriental Darth Vader!

Via Gizmodo

Technorati Tags: Gift Show 2008, Japanese, oriental Darth Vader, Samurai, samurai-styled stormtroopers, Star Wars, Tokyo, Yoshi Isao

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2 comments   |  1,522 views  |  categories : Entertainment, Japan

1 Samurai Stormtrooper?!?!!?! at Daikon Forge { 03.12.08 at 6:54 pm }

[...] It almost makes me wonder why we haven’t seen something like this before in Second Life. [...]

2 Anonymous Grump { 03.12.08 at 10:26 pm }

Well that’s interesting work by Yoshi Isao, but it’s hardly a new, unique way of looking at Star Wars. It’s really just a fairly obvious extension of George Lucas’ original conception - isn’t it immediately clear that GL based much of starwars on “popular” notions of Samurai culture anyway? I mean, the Jedi are essentially Kurosawa-style samurai complete with sci-fi katanas (they’re even ‘ronin’ by Episode 4), Darth Vader’s helmet is quite obviously a ‘kabuto’… etc. etc.
Yawn burp.

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