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The Big Picture Star Wars in my Shōgun? It’s more likely than you think. No, Lord Toranaga and Lord Ishido aren't going to solve their civil war with a lightsaber fight . Instead, like every part of the meticulously assembled Shōgun, its Star Wars-inspired detail is innocuous yet essential, and intentionally chosen by showrunner Justin Marks and co-creator Rachel Kondo, who happen to be Star Wars devotees.
Shōgun's crew dived even deeper into the research well. As the scripts evolved into a true reflection of 17th-century Japanese society, Marks and Knodo realized how much better the story would be if treated with the utmost accuracy. Whether it was the wood type used in Sengoku architecture, the way noblewomen walked, or Episode 8's tea ceremony, everything counted in building the whole.
Justin Marks told Polygon, "We wanted to get to an urgency that was a little different. We have to put these words on screen — and if we’re going to do that, let’s not make that an afterthought anymore. considered the amount of subtitles that would need to be on screen having a particular word on screen when Mariko’s face changes, as opposed to relying on a sentence structure that might deny us that moment.
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