For money, people do many cruel things. This can be seen not only in Squid Game and the Disney+hit Shogun, but also in a Netflix series that is supposed to connect both: to the bloody history spectacle Last Samurai Standing Is there now the first picture.
Netflix brings Squid Game and Shogun together: Samurai fight around 600 million
The picture, which was published on what’s on Netflix, shows the protagonist Shujiro (Jun’ichi Okada). It stands in the middle of a group of people in front of a wooden temple building. What is behind it?
Last Samurai Standing is based on the novel Ikusagami (Japanese for example “war god”) by the author Shogo Imamura, which has also been adapted in manga form since 2022. He plays in the late 19th century Japan, when the privileges of the Samurai were abolished in the course of a violent wave of modernization.
Warrior Shujiro (Okada), overwhelmed by the new times, tries to get money for his sick wife and daughter. Finally he finds for a murderous game at the Tenryuji Temple in Kyoto: 292 Samurai should fight around 100 billion yen (equivalent to around 626 million euros). Squid Game with sword and Kimono.
Imamura has already been overjoyed, according to what’s on Netflix, about the occupation of OKADA, which he according to his own words anyway
as the main actor.
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When does Last Samurai Standing come to Netflix?
Last Samurai Standing should, according to Netflix and Shogo Imamura’s website, in the course of the year 2025 appear. How many follow the first season should include and whether further seasons are planned is not yet known.