Last Samurai Standing

Twilight Samurai is set around the time during the Boshin War and before Meiji restoration and it similarly deals with a samurai struggling to make ends meet and support his family just like Shujiro in Last Samurai Standing

Both works feature death game struggles among the players. They have to clear the games in order to survive.

Both are about a group of strangers battling each other to the death as a game in order to win a large amount of money. One is the historical, the other modern day.

Both are about a group of strangers playing a game of life and death in order to win a large amount of money. One is the historical, the other modern day.

Both works are set in the era and tackle the Boshin War, the Meiji restoration, as well as the assassination of Lord Okubo.

Both works are set in the era and tackle the Boshin War, the Meiji restoration, as well as the assassination of Lord Okubo.

Both works are set in the era and tackle the Boshin War, the Meiji restoration, as well as the assassination of Lord Okubo.

Both works are set in the era and tackle the Boshin War, the Meiji restoration, as well as the assassination of Lord Okubo.

Both works follow the lives of two known samurai retainers as they struggle during the Boshin War and cope with their losses.

Both works are about a former distinguished samurai reduced to poverty traveling with a child that needs to be protected from those trying to kill them.

Both works feature an old and weary ronin traveling with a young woman that needs to be protected from those trying to kill them at every turn. The fight scenes are also of similar quality.

Both works are set just several years apart. Baragaki is about the Shinsengumi, the famed group of samurai secret police patrolling the streets of Japan during the Tokugawa shogunate and just before the Boshin War, while Last Samurai Standing happens during the era that follows the fall of the shogunate.

Both are set in eras where samurai have lost their positions and deemed worthless. The samurai were left to literally forage for scraps because of lack of work and some had to resort to drastic measures just to survive.

Battle Royale is considered to be the first movie with the "death game" premise and inspired other movies and shows that featured similar concepts. It no doubt has some influence on this drama as well.