That would have really been an interesting take.. err, not the ninja jedi but portraying the Republic era Jedi to be analogous to the Samurai around the time of the Meiji Restoration.
Seeing Jedi as corrupt, infighting parasites, a symptom of the greater decline of the Republic as a whole.
I would have liked to have seen a young, idealistic Obi-wan at this time, training up Anakin on a romanticized Jedi code which anakin slowly rejects in favor of the more brutal and pragmatic approach the other Jedi are taking. L