Billed as Netflix Japan ‘s tentpole title for the year, Last Samurai Standing is set in 1878 Japan, and assembles 292 fallen samurais for a survival game, where the last competitor standing gets to claim a 100 billion yen (nearly $656M) prize.

Japan’s Junichi Okada , formerly of boyband V6, stars as the lead actor in the series, while also juggling producer and action choreographer duties.

Alongside Okada, writer-director Michihito Fujii ( The Journalist , Faceless ) helms the series. Both worked together on the film, Hard Days , in 2023.

Okada was initially approached by Netflix to produce a series together — one that would involve “updating” the period piece for contemporary tastes. Okada agreed, on the condition that he could choose some of the people he would work

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