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 ...

The hero, Saga Kokushu, played by Junichi Okada, is one of dozens of samurai in a live-or-die survival game to save family, community and honor. Participants receive wooden tags to wear and add ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japanese heart throb-turned-tough guy Junichi Okada hopes to have a global hit on his hands with the upcoming Netflix tentpole ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image released by Netflix shows, from left, Junichi Okada, Yumia Fujisaki, Kaya Kiyohara and Masahiro Higashide in a scene ...

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 ...

Last Samurai Standing, a new series directed by Michihito Fujii and starring Junichi Okada, is coming to Netflix. In post-samurai era Japan, 292 fallen samurais are lured into a survival game where ...

Last Samurai Standing keeps viewers on their toes until the very end! The Netflix series follows Shujiro Saga (Junichi Okada), a warrior struggling to care for his sick wife and daughter in ...

Netflix has confirmed the renewal of Last Samurai Standing for a second season following the global success of Season 1 (via Tudum). In the week of its release, the show charted at Netflix’s no. 2 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This image released by Netflix shows, from left, Junichi Okada, Yumia Fujisaki, Kaya Kiyohara and Masahiro Higashide in a scene from "The Last Samurai Standing." (Chihoko Ishii/Netflix via AP) TOKYO ...

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 ...