Shogun's Star Wars Easter Egg #starwars #shogun | Star Wars Explained

Report from the Holocron of Xela. Description: Shogun on FX is just about to wrap up. If you haven’t seen it, first of all it’s awesome. But more relevant to this channel, showrunner Justin Marks has confirmed it has a fun connection back to Star Wars. The character of Toranaga can often be seen wearing robes that, according to Marks, intentionally match the color scheme of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s robes. This was done as an homage to actor Toshiro Mifune, a legendary Japanese actor that played Toranaga in the 1980 version of the Shogun miniseries. He appeared in several Akira Kurosawa films, which were a heavy influence on George Lucas during the making of Star Wars. So much so that Mifune was Lucas’s first pick to play Obi-Wan Kenobi in A New Hope. Subscribe for more Star Wars videos every day! Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIKlsX1qfGqKPt4KAW-JOZg/join Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/starwarsexplain Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@starwarsexplain Instagram: http://instagram.com/starwarsexplained Twitter: https://twitter.com/StarWarsExplain Second channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5KUexDNjIDcGPz4nAY9mBw Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/starwarsexplained Discord: https://discord.gg/ZPwEnDT Star Wars Tees: http://shrsl.com/?~9i83 Thumbnails by: https://twitter.com/bryaneward Mailing Address Star Wars Explained 1227 Rockbridge Rd SW Ste 208 PMB 264 Stone Mountain, GA 30087 This channel is not affiliated in any way with Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC, The Walt Disney Company, or any of their affiliates or subsidiaries.


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