Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Last Samurai Standing’ on Netflix, A Limited Series Where The Last Of Japan’s Legendary Warriors Must Battle To Survive

The Gist: In the midst of the Boshin War, when the Tokugawa shogunate clashed with the rising forces of Imperial Japan, samurai Shujiro Saga (Okada) found himself winning and losing at the same time. While Shujiro Saga and the few samurai in the competition he can rely on not to stab him in the back all fight with traditional blades, they exist in an era of sweeping change, meaning flying bullets are equally in play. The fights in Last Samurai are as erratic and brutal as the Japanese men in western clothing observing the battle are arrogant and cruel, and we’re intrigued with what the early going of the series shows us about who has planned this deadly game.

Author: mliss1578

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