About “Last Samurai Standing” in a few words:

Last Samurai Standing is a 2025 Japanese action-drama on Netflix. Set in 1878 during the Meiji Restoration, it centers on 292 former samurai who join a lethal tournament called Kodoku. The prize? A life-changing 100 billion yen. But only one warrior can survive — and the road to Tokyo is paved with betrayal, blood, and ambition.

Meet the characters from Last Samurai Standing

Shujiro Saga

Okay, Shujiro is basically the weathered, legendary samurai everyone whispers about when the tea gets cold — gruff, precise, and somehow always five minutes late but never late for a duel. He’s the mentor you didn’t know you needed: strict rules, quieter than a shrine, but with this ridiculous soft spot for stray cats and bad poetry (don’t ask how those two things go together). Haunted backstory? Of course — scars, vows, the works — yet he’ll chop wood at dawn and hum an old lullaby, which is either comforting or deeply ominous depending on the hour. He hates being fussed over but keeps a perfectly pressed handkerchief collection; very contradictory, very Shujiro, and strangely trustworthy.

Futaba Katsuki

Futaba is pure spark — quick blade, quicker mouth, and she has this grin that makes chaos feel like a deliberate plan, honestly can’t get over it. She’s whip-smart, kind of reckless, loves practical jokes almost as much as she loves training (and will absolutely challenge you to a duel at tea time, no shame). Little things: hoards tiny notebooks full of doodles and battle plans, claims she hates sweets but will steal your cake when you blink; also allergic to boring people, which is fair. She’s the kind of heroine who fixes a broken sword with duct tape and a smile and somehow makes it work.

Iroha Kinugasa

Iroha moves like silence but lands like thunder — graceful, composed, always three steps ahead in any scheme (including the ones she pretends she wasn’t part of). She’s unfailingly polite, reads faces like maps, and yet has these sudden bursts of sarcasm that catch everyone off guard — like, regal but definitely not above a good prank. She collects tiny glass figurines, which is weird for someone who slices through enemies with surgical calm, but also very much her.

Kyojin Tsuge

Kyojin is the mountain of the group — literally built like a fortress and with a laugh that can stop a quarrel or start one, depending on his mood (often both). He’s slow to anger but unstoppable once riled, and has this ridiculous hobby of writing haikus about food, so you get the brute poet energy — I love him. He’s fiercely loyal, sometimes a little too protective, and oddly scared of mice (don’t ask how that rumor started, it’s canon now). Underneath the brawn is this unexpectedly tender heart that brings pies to lonely outposts, which is just too much but also perfect.