In the breathless opening one-er of Last Samurai Standing, samurai protagonist Shujiro Saga (Junichi Okada, also a producer and action choreographer) cuts through dozens of men as he charges across a ...

Netflix has a long history of canceling a show before it can truly take off, but Last Samurai Standing may have finally broken the trend.

The Netflix series follows Shujiro Saga (Junichi Okada), a warrior struggling to care for his sick wife and daughter in post-samurai era Japan. He becomes one of nearly 300 fighters to compete in a ...

Tom Cruise appeared in the 2003 film, The Last Samurai, which serves as an inspiration for a new Netflix series.(AP) The Netflix series Last Samurai Standing, which premiered on 13 November, takes ...

“The Last Samurai” isn’t a star vehicle; it’s a star tricycle. Tom Cruise plays a disillusioned, booze-sozzled Civil War vet, circa 1876, hired out to teach the eager-to-Westernize Japanese a thing or ...

Based on the movies, especially those shown on "Kung-Fu Theatre," one would think the Japanese men called Samurai were a violent, warlike people. In truth, the way of the samurai is one of discipline ...

In the 2003 film The Last Samurai, Tom Cruise stars as an American soldier who is taken in by a samurai clan and learns about ...

TOKYO — “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 ...

In The Last Samurai, Tom Cruise plays Tom Cruise playing a Civil War captain who moves to 19th-century Japan, where he learns to play a samurai warrior. Not that there’s anything wrong with Cruise ...