Netflix’s new Japanese period action drama series, Last Samurai Standing, premiered its first season on the streaming platform on November 13, 2025. The show focuses on the life of samurai Shujiro ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last Samurai Standing has long been dubbed Netflix's Squid Game replacement, but the show proved itself to be more than that. The ending of Last Samurai Standing episode 6 ushered in another battle ...

It ends on multiple cliffhangers, teasing this batch of episodes as only the "first chapter." All six episodes are currently streaming on Netflix. In this century of rampant elite corruption and the ...

Burt is a contributor for TIME. Last Samurai Standing Burt is a contributor for TIME. Warning: Spoilers ahead for Last Samurai Standing In the breathless opening one-er of Last Samurai Standing, ...

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 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 ...