



To even the hardest-core Star Wars exegete, Kairennosuke may be an unfamiliar name - though not entirely unfamiliar. Staged one time only last Friday at Tokyo’s Meguro Persimmon Hall, Kairennosuke and the Three Shining Swords retells the events of recent films The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi in Japan’s best-known traditional theater form. The vast franchise has produced “cinematic sequels, TV specials, animated spin-offs, novels, comic books, video games, but it wasn’t until November 28 that there was a Star Wars kabuki play,” writes Sora News 24’s Casey Baseel. Anyone can tell by the undiminishing popularity of the ever more frequent expansions of the Star Wars universe more than 40 years after the movie that started it all - and not just in the English-speaking West, but all the world over. Star Wars: The Last Jedi is so very different, exciting, surprising.The appeal of Star Wars transcends generation, place, and culture. So many emotions, so many amazing moments. It means # TheLastJedi made me feel like a kid again. I am STUNNED by # StarWars # TheLastJedi. I gasped, I laughed, I screamed, I cried and I had the time of my life. Rian Johnson pulled it off, making what might be the best Star Wars movie ever. There’s a scene in # StarWars # TheLastJedi that I keep playing over and over in my head, that is so stunning and unexpected that I don’t want to forget how I felt seeing it for the first time. This movie feels unlike any other Star Wars movie in all the ways I hoped. Not only are Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill at their very best as Leia and Luke in this movie, but Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver blow Rey and Kylo Ren out of the park. I didn’t expect where those characters went and it’s my favorite part of the movie. And the team nail so much – thrills, laughs, heart and most of all, pushing the characters/overall franchise a major step forward.Īn adventure as epic & sweeping as all the other films combined, with laughs, tears, and moments that will make your head pop off.
