Netflix‘s lately launched authentic collection Final Samurai Standing has shortly grow to be a scorching matter of dialogue, garnering rave opinions from critics and viewers, together with one from gaming icon Hideo Kojima. The famend online game designer lately took to social media to share his evaluation of the Japanese present, stating that he totally loved binge-watching all six episodes.
Hideo Kojima says the route of Final Samurai Standing made his ‘coronary heart skip’ a beat
In an X (previously Twitter) publish, which Kojima has since deleted, the Demise Stranding creator heaped immense reward on Netflix’s Final Samurai Standing collection, going so far as to say that it made his “coronary heart skip.”
“I binged Ikusagami (Final Samurai Standing) up by way of Episode 6! It was so good. I really like the Yamada Futaro × Squid Sport sort of worldbuilding,” Kojima wrote in his assessment of Final Samurai Standing. Whereas he in contrast the present to Squid Sport for its survival parts, the veteran recreation creator additionally highlighted the similarities it shares with the action-packed works of Japanese creator Yamada Futaro.
Kojima additional added, “The cutbacks between the Kodoku-game facet, the organizers, and the federal government facet all transfer with nice pacing. They usually don’t hesitate to kill off well-drawn characters (with a stacked solid) both. The Tsubaki Sanjūrō-style directing second made my coronary heart skip.” (through GamesRadar)
Tsubaki Sanjūrō is an iconic samurai movie directed by the legendary Akira Kurosawa as a sequel to his 1961 film Yojimbo. Notably, Sanjūrō is broadly thought to be among the best movies of its style.
Set within the nineteenth century, Final Samurai Standing attracts inspiration from Shogo Imamura’s novel of the identical title and revolves across the struggles of Shujiro Saga, performed by Junichi Okada. Within the collection, Shujiro joins a survival problem with hopes of profitable a money prize of ¥100,000 to assist his ailing spouse and little one.
Launched on Netflix on November 13, 2025, Final Samurai Standing presently holds an impeccable critic rating of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Initially reported by Apoorv Rastogi on SuperHeroHype.