Last Samurai Standing is not a complete home run, but it certainly works more often than it doesn't. Last Samurai Standing has been dubbed a Shogun replacement , if only for its feudal Japanese setting. Quality-wise, Shogun is a superior series, but Last Samurai Standing 's Squid Game elements make it undeniably entertaining.

To put it bluntly, Last Samurai Standing is Squid Game with katana; a group of rich elite looking to usher Japan into a new era forces 292 samurai, now dubbed obsolete shizoku, into a deadly competition. The winner gets 100,000 yen, while the organizers gain the extinction of a bygone generation of Japanese warriors and the entertainment of watching the chaos from afar.

The similarities to shows like Squid Game do not stop there, with each c

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