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Total Film
Total Film
Entertainment
David Opie

New Netflix show Last Samurai Standing will draw comparisons to Squid Game and Shōgun, but it’s so much more than that

Last Samurai Standing.

Squid Game has crowned its winner, Alice's Borderland story has ended, and Shōgun is drawing up battle plans to return in a year or so. Yet fans of these shows needn't despair, not when Last Samurai Standing is here to cut through their absence and bring you thrills in a similar vein.

Based on the Ikusagami series by Shogo Imamura, Last Samurai Standing brings 292 fighters together to compete for a special prize during Japan's Meiji era (late 19th Century). The game at hand isn't quite of the "squid" variety, but it's no less deadly.

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