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The Edo period extended from the end of the civil wars of the 16 th century (the source of all samurai films) and the consolidation of power under the warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu, to the Meiji Restoration, when Japan adopted something resembling a parliamentary monarchy under the emperor.
"I don't sense anything," he tells his uneasy young apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi (McGregor), as the two sit waiting to conduct trade negotiations with a bunch of gray, fish-faced Federation officers who talk like extras in a samurai movie.
On one hand, their revenge was perfectly in accord with the samurai code of honor; on the other, they had murdered a high official.
Today, sumo champions — the only men still allowed to wear the samurai warrior’s gleaming top-knot hairdo — are national heroes and are much in demand for TV commercials.
The Tokugawa reaction was characteristic: a reinforcement of the austere values of the samurai and a rigorous clamp-down on the merchants’ high life.