 Ibata comments that they look Asian, their headgear recalling both Samurai helmets and conical "Coolie" hats.Ibata suggests that the film's director Peter Jackson may have embodied Tolkien's "racial view of the world".Ibata notes too that in the film the Orcs, a supposedly non-human race, look much like "the worst depictions of the Japanese drawn by American and British illustrators during World War II."