{"id":327186,"date":"2025-12-20T22:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327186\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T22:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:46:10","slug":"last-samurai-standing-renewed-for-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327186\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Last Samurai Standing&#8221; Renewed For Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/last-samurai-standing-renewed-for-season-2.jpg\" data-caption=\"Netflix\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/last-samurai-standing-renewed-for-season-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"last-samurai-standing-renewed-for-season-2\"\/><\/a>Netflix<\/p>\n<p>Netflix has given the go-ahead for a second season of its Japanese period-action series \u201cLast Samurai Standing\u201d which is based on the manga series and Shogo Imamura-penned novel \u201cIkusagami\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The story unfolds in late 19th century Japan during the Meiji period. 292 warriors, including Shujiro Saga (Junichi Okada), gather at Tenryuji Temple in Kyoto at nightfall, lured by the promise of a huge cash prize which Saga will use to help his sick wife and child.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the warriors is given a wooden tag and joins a vicious game in which they must steal the tags of their fellow participants and reach Tokyo to win the prize money of \u00a5100 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Under the veil of night, the temple grounds are filled with unease and the presence of bloodthirsty warriors. When the signal is given to begin the game, the combatants launch into their relentless battle for survival.<\/p>\n<p>Yumia Fujisaki, Kaya Kiyohara, Hiroshi Tamaki, Hideaki It\u014d and Gaku Hamada co-star in the series, which Michihito Fujii directs and which launched in November.<\/p>\n<p>The title hit No. 1 on Netflix\u2019s Global Top 10 (Non-English Series) chart and ranked in the Top 10 across 88 countries. In Japan, the series held the No. 1 position for four consecutive weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/last-samurai-standing-season-2-netflix-1236611766\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/apple-cancels-the-last-frontier-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Cancels \u201cThe Last Frontier\u201d Series<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/vampire-lestat-story-spans-two-seasons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Vampire Lestat\u201d Story Spans Two Seasons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix Netflix has given the go-ahead for a second season of its Japanese period-action series \u201cLast Samurai Standing\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[94966,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-327186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-tv","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}