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Last Samurai Standing (イクサガミ) is a 2025 Japanese Netflix original live-action series adapted from Shogo Imamura\'s novel. Set in the late Meiji period at Tenryū-ji in Kyoto, it follows Shujiro Saga, a once-unbeaten samurai who enters a lethal tournament of 292 fighters competing to seize wooden tags and journey to Tokyo for a ¥100,000 prize. Starring Junichi Okada, Yumia Fujisaki and Kaya Kiyohara, the six-episode series premiered at the 30th Busan International Film Festival.

The Flowers of War is a 2011 Chinese-Hong Kong historical drama war film directed by Zhang Yimou. It stars Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Zhang Xinyi, Tong Dawei, Atsuro Watabe, Shigeo Kobayashi, and Cao Kefan. The story is set in Nanking, China, during the 1937 Nanking Massacre in the Second Sino-Japanese War. A group of escapees seeks sanctuary in a church compound, where they try to survive the Japanese atrocities.