Starring Junichi Okada — who also serves as producer and action choreographer—the series reimagines the decline of the samurai at the end of the Edo period. Netflix Japan’s content head, Kaata ...

TOKYO (AP) — “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 ...

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 ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A throng of impoverished, disenfranchised, and desperate people join a game conceived by a mysterious orchestrator. As VIPs watch, they compete in a deadly ...

Star and action choreographer Junichi Okada is promising an even "more energetic and action-packed” batch of episodes, after Season 1 topped Netflix’s global non-English chart and spent four weeks at ...

Netflix has unveiled its Japanese content slate for 2025, headlined by “Last Samurai Standing,” a period drama featuring 300 samurai warriors gathered at Tenryuji Temple in Kyoto, lured by the promise ...

In this century of rampant elite corruption and the ever-increasing marginalization of the working class, it makes sense that we'd see an influx of art about high-stakes capitalism, specifically the ...

Last Samurai Standing Season 2 renewal is now a trending topic among Netflix viewers worldwide. After the series’ explosive finale, fans want to know if Netflix will bring back the Japanese historical ...

In an X (formerly Twitter) post, which Kojima has since deleted, the Death Stranding creator heaped immense praise on Netflix’s Last Samurai Standing series, going as far as to say that it made his ...

Junichi Okada stars, produces and did the action choreography on this six-part series about a nefarious game pitting samurai against each other in 19th-century Japan. By Daniel Fienberg Chief ...