In the 1970s, Japan's cultural industry has grown by leaps and bounds and begun to export. The legendary director Akira Kurosawa influenced many Hollywood directors and screenwriters. George Lucas was one of them. In his prime of life, he was madly infatuated with the Oriental world under the lens of Akira Kurosawa's films , the struggle and confrontation between samurai and samurai, katana and katana, which seemed mysterious and charming to him.
A big fan of Kurosawa's films, Lucas secured $8.5 million from Fox for his first big-budget sci-fi film: Star Wars.In honor of
Akira Kurosawa, Lucas took the samurai setting and added the bushido spirit to the character design, creating the "Jedi Knight".Since there is a samurai, naturally there is a samurai sword, echoing the background of the story, the high-tech and handsome lightsaber came into being.