The Duel
- Episode aired Sep 22, 2021
- TV-PG
- 14m
IMDb RATING
8.4/10
6.9K
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A wandering stranger with a mysterious past defends a village from powerful bandits.A wandering stranger with a mysterious past defends a village from powerful bandits.A wandering stranger with a mysterious past defends a village from powerful bandits.
Masaki Terasoma
- Ronin
- (voice)
Akeno Watanabe
- Bandit Leader
- (voice)
Yûko Sanpei
- Child Village Chief
- (voice)
- (as Yuuko Sanpei)
Chô
- Teahouse Shopkeeper
- (voice)
- (as Cho)
Kôsuke Kobayashi
- Trooper B
- (voice)
- (as Kousuke Kobayashi)
Tasuku Kida
- Dug
- (voice)
- …
Shin'ya Takahashi
- Gran
- (voice)
- (as Shinya Takahashi)
- …
Chad Horii
- Trandoshan
- (voice)
- (as Chado Horii)
- …
Takaki Ôtomari
- Tusken Raider
- (voice)
- (as Takaki Ootomari)
- …
Lucy Liu
- Bandit Leader
- (English version)
- (voice)
Jaden Waldman
- Child Village Chief
- (English version)
- (voice)
Joe Ochman
- Teahouse Shopkeeper
- (English version)
- (voice)
- …
Adam Sietz
- Dug
- (English version)
- (voice)
- …
Neil Kaplan
- Gran
- (English version)
- (voice)
Michael Sinterniklaas
- RA-7
- (English version)
- (voice)
- …
JP Karliak
- Trandoshan
- (English version)
- (voice)
- …
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- Writers
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen the Sith Bandit jabs at a waterfall with her red lightsaber the sound effect is the same as when Darth Maul tested the electro ray barrier that separated him from Qui-Gon in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).
- GoofsWhen Ronin walks slowly towards the Sith Bandit, her troopers are running past him in the other direction. Not all of them have passed the Ronin before the angle changes, but in the next shot there are no troopers in sight at all, not even in the far background.
- Crazy creditsAt the start of this short, the title is shown on screen in English, but using the Aurebesh font.
- ConnectionsReferences Yojimbo (1961)
Featured review
Not A Bad Start
This episode, kicking off Visions, is almost entirely style over substance, but that's not necessarily a terrible thing. I am not by any means whatsoever (and I cannot stress this enough) an anime aficionado or even a fan. I literally have never watched an anime (unless one counts ATLA, whose anime status is hotly debated among certain circles) except for a few Studio Ghibli films which have proven hit or miss with me, and so would not trust myself to be a judge of the style. That said, I do greatly enjoy Eastern live action cinema, and know what I like and what I don't. I greatly enjoyed the black and white art style, broken up with shots of color from sabers and lasers. The grainy look and Japanese aesthetic made me feel like I was watching a Kurosawa samurai film, though I must admit 'The Elder' from this same series does the duel tension better than this episode. The saber "sheath" brings up logistical questions, but it sure looks cool. My fear going into this show would be that there are serious lore contradictions to established canon, and yes, nearly every episode seems to have that, which would make expanding any of these into a show of some kind difficult unless they change aspects or maintain a non-canon existence, which is unfortunate, as many of these could benefit from fleshing out and seeing more. This episode was cool to look at, but that's about it.
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- theempop
- Sep 24, 2021
Details
- Runtime14 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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