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.

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 ...

The Netflix series follows Shujiro Saga (Junichi Okada), a warrior struggling to care for his sick wife and daughter in post-samurai era Japan. He becomes one of nearly 300 fighters to compete in a ...

Netflix's original Japanese action series, "Last Samurai Standing," is set to be released next year. The samurai action series is set in Japan's Meiji period and features Junichi Okada as the lead ...

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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 ...

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 Jun’ichi Okada, is one of ...

In the 2003 film The Last Samurai, Tom Cruise stars as an American soldier who is taken in by a samurai clan and learns about ...

The show follows former samurai struggling to adapt to the 19th century and fighting to the death to win money While the major events of Last Samurai Standing were created for the show, facets of the ...

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 ...