Heck, it got me to watch and review Last Samurai Standing. The concern, I guess, is a matter of raised expectations. By couching its story in the late 19th century, Japan’s Meiji era, Last Samurai ...

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 ...

Netflix has been good to survival action horror fans in 2025. With Squid Game airing its final season and the return of Alice in Borderland, brutal survival has been the name of the game, and the year ...

Steel clashed and shadows danced as Last Samurai Standing debuted on November 13, unfurling a realm of cunning plots and breathtaking confrontations. Every edge-of-your-seat duel whispered secrets of ...

As the Meiji Era begins, an honorable samurai is forced to fight again, so that his family may live. The six-episode Last Samurai Standing, directed and co-written by Michihito Fujii, and based on the ...

After watching the first episode of Last Samurai Standing, one thing becomes apparent very quickly: This show rules. I mean it is mint. I mean I walked around my apartment after it was over, saying ...

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 ...

New Netflix show Last Samurai Standing will draw comparisons to Squid Game and Shōgun, but it’s so much more than that ...

Netflix is no stranger to bringing some of the most beloved manga and anime to life in live-action, from their highly successful One Piece series to their sci-fi thriller adaptation Alice in ...

Last Samurai Standing has now landed on Netflix, a six-episode series which takes place in the post-samurai era in Japan, where 292 fallen samurai find themselves lured into a game of survival, where ...

Erielle Sudario is a Collider News and Feature Author from Australia and has worked in the journalism industry since 2018. She has a passion for entertainment and pop culture news and has interviewed ...