Set in 1878 Japan, Last Samurai Standing takes place in the post-feudal period when the few remaining samurai have become personas non grata, with a rapidly modernizing Japanese society shunning the ...

In the breathless opening one-er of Last Samurai Standing, samurai protagonist Shujiro Saga (Junichi Okada, also a producer and action choreographer) cuts through dozens of men as he charges across a ...

"They end up clashing here – soul to soul... I thought of it as a love scene as we filmed it." ⚔️ Netflix has debuted a making of promo video for the badass Japanese action series called Last Samurai ...

Netflix 's Shogun replacement will officially be back. In 2024, FX debuted its critically acclaimed adaptation of Shogun. The show was a major success, and Netflix rushed to make its own samurai show, ...

Netflix has a long history of canceling a show before it can truly take off, but Last Samurai Standing may have finally broken the trend.

From Rollerball and The Running Man to modern takes like Saw and Ready or Not, the “deadly game” subgenre has been popular for decades. The tropes of these stories have found particular success in ...

TOKYO — “Last Samurai Standing,” a Netflix series launching on Thursday, is set in a Japan where the feudal samurai era is about to end. The hero, Saga Kokushu, played by Junichi Okada, is one of ...

Netflix has greenlit a second season of “Last Samurai Standing,” the Japanese period-action series that has become a global streaming hit since its debut. Set during Japan’s Meiji period in the late ...