3. Jedi’s Star Wars costumes were inspired from Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa’s 1956 film, Seven Samurai served as inspiration for George Lucas when it came to Jedi’s brown, belted robes and mantles. And so the Samurai handling swords turned into Jedi wielding lightsabers. The inspiration for these costumes came also from Buddhist monks in China, Tibet, and Japan.

“Like monks, Jedi are not meant to be married; they’re there to serve. There’s a uniform to make them look like they belong together,” Laela French concluded. But the Jedi were not the only ones to wear costumes inspired from Samurai culture.

In Episode II, Zam Wessell, a bounty hunter from the planet Zolan wears a skirt that resembles the body armor of ancient Samurai.

Go on the next page to find out how Chewbacca was created.