The Duel

"The Duel" (デュエル Dyueru) is an episode of the Disney+ series Star Wars: Visions and is animated by Kamikaze Douga.
==Synopsis==
A wandering stranger with a mysterious past defends a village from powerful bandits.
==Plot==
Presented in the style of a black and white Samurai film, an unnamed Ronin and his droid wander the countryside before settling at a teashop on the outskirts of a village where the friendly owner gives them whatever they want. Suddenly several stormtroopers raid the village and round everyone up, but the Ronin appears to be unfazed. One of the stormtroopers demands to speak with the chief and is surprised to find out that he is a child and mocks him.
The village's defenders come out and shoot at the stormtroopers, forcing their leader, a Sith lord (identified as Kouru in Ronin: A Visions Novel), to come out and fight them. The Ronin tells the teashop owner to fix his droid by the time the tea kettle is ready as he walks into the village and confronts the leader. It is revealed that the Ronin possesses a red lightsaber, implying that he was once a Sith, and he and Kouru fight to the outskirts of town until they end up on a log on a moving river.
The stormtroopers manage to round everyone up again, but the Ronin's droid is fixed on time and speeds into the village where he blasts all of the stormtroopers. The Ronin falls over a waterfall, but Kouru is not convinced that he died and goes looking for him. She concludes that he hid in the waterfall and jumps through to attack him, only to realize it was a statue and the Ronin comes up from behind and kills her, before taking her lightsaber. The Ronin returns to the village and gives one of her weapons to the teashop owner. He then destroys the Leader's lightsaber and takes the kyber crystal within it (revealing that he has many more) but decides to give it to the village to ward off evil, before he and his droid move on.
==Cast==
CharacterSTUNNING NEW STAR WARS: VISIONS TRAILER DEBUTS	English voice	Japanese voice
Ronin 	Brian Tee 	Masaki Terasoma
Kouru 	Lucy Liu 	Akeno Watanabe
Child Village Chief 	Jaden Waldman	Yūko Sanpei
Teahouse Shopkeeper 	Joe Ochman 	Chō
==Trivia==
*The episode takes place in "an alternate history pulled from Japanese lore".A MYSTERIOUS FORMER SITH WANDERS THE GALAXY IN RONIN, THE UPCOMING STAR WARS: VISIONS NOVEL – EXCLUSIVE REVEAL
*The atmosphere of the short is based on what partially inspired Star Wars, that of the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa.
*If one looks closely, you can see the original poster for Star Wars.
*The credits list the antagonist as "Bandit Leader". In Ronin: A Visions Novel, she is identified as Kouru.
==Gallery==
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==References==
==External links==
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