- Netflix has introduced a brand new epic samurai sequence as a part of its 2025 Japanese content material slate.
- The present is a cross between Shōgun and Squid Game, in line with the Netflix Japan content material head.
- Last Samurai Standing revolves round samurai warriors battling it out for an enormous money prize.
Thanks to Netflix, I’ve discovered my subsequent binge-watch after Squid Game season 3 ends with its new upcoming Japanese samurai battle sequence Last Samurai Standing.
Last Samurai Standing was introduced as a part of Netflix’s Japanese content material slate for 2025 and follows samurai warriors who compete for an enormous money prize. The new historic epic is gearing as much as turn into the most effective Netflix reveals, as Netflix Japan content material head Kaata Sakamoto in contrast Last Samurai Standing to the most effective Disney Plus reveals, Shōgun, and the streamer’s greatest TV present ever Squid Game.
Sakamoto stated to Variety: “When most individuals take into consideration samurai, they give thought to this very glamorous interval in Japanese historical past. But what lots of people don’t understand is that, in the direction of the tip of the Edo interval, the samurai misplaced quite a lot of their glamour and their energy. Last Samurai Standing is about what would occur if these warriors – the hardest and greatest in Japan – swiftly grew to become frequent individuals and needed to combat for his or her lives. Think Shōgun meets Squid Game.”
What is Last Samurai Standing about?
Based on the novel Ikusagami by Shogo Imamura, Last Samurai Standing already has a resemblance to Shōgun and Squid Game based mostly on its comparable premise. The official logline reads: “In the Meiji interval, at Tenryuji Temple in Kyoto, 292 expert warriors gathered at dusk, lured by the promise of an enormous money prize. The guidelines are easy: whoever can steal the wood tags distributed to every of them and attain Tokyo will win the prize cash. Among them is Shujiro Saga, who enters the lethal sport with one objective: to avoid wasting his ailing spouse and little one.”
Going off the plot, Last Samurai Standing is similar to the record-breaking FX sequence Shōgun and Squid Game, which broke every kind of data that even Stranger Things could not beat.
The sequence, which is about to premiere on the perfect streaming service in November 2025, additionally options Junichi Okada within the lead function in addition to motion choreographer and producer. That means it is going to debut after the subsequent installment Squid Game is launched.
Indeed, Squid Game season 3 is about to be launched on June 27, and its first clip teases a brand new mini-game that’ll have a big effect on Gi-hun and his fellow contestants. As for Shōgun season 2, the critically-acclaimed sequence is presently in growth at FX studios, so there’s loads to binge-watch between Netflix and Hulu (or Disney Plus for worldwide readers).
