"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 ...

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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Junichi Okada talks about the new Netflix series and how his role as action planner touches nearly every part of ...

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 ...

Nowhere are the intentions of Last Samurai Standing – Netflix’s fusion of Squid Game and Shogun – clearer than in its ending, which completely abandons the idea of narrative payoff in favour of an ...

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 ...