Last Samurai Standing (2025)
Grade: Aa
Format: Series
Genre: Period action / battle royale
Studio: Office Shirous
Source: novel
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In 1878 Japan, a decade after the samurai class has been stripped of its identity and swords outlawed, 292 desperate warriors — ravaged by poverty and a cholera epidemic — gather at Kyoto's Tenryuji Temple for a brutal death game called Kodoku, racing to Tokyo by collecting opponents' wooden tags to survive each checkpoint. A PTSD-stricken former samurai enters to save his dying family, only to uncover a political conspiracy by a government official bent on exterminating the warrior class entirely. Adapted from Shogo Imamura's best-selling historical fiction novel, it blends jidaigeki period d
Cast
- Junichi Okada
- Yumia Fujisaki
- Kaya Kiyohara
- Masahiro Higashide
- Shota Sometani