{"id":32396,"date":"2025-11-22T15:29:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=32396"},"modified":"2025-11-23T00:28:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:28:30","slug":"last-samurai-standing-exclusive-interveiw-with-director-michihito-fujii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=32396","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Last Samurai Standing&#8221; : Exclusive Interview with Director Michihito Fujii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@cinemadailyus\">Check out more of our Youtube Channel\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>\u00a9<\/b>Courtesy of Netflix<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nobuhiro Hosoki<\/strong> grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s &#8220;A Clockwork Orange.\u201d After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on\u00a0<a class=\"google-anno\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/nobuhosokigmail-com\/#\" data-google-vignette=\"false\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\">\u00a0<span class=\"google-anno-t\">TV<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Tokyo\u2019s program called &#8220;Morning Satellite&#8221; at the New York branch office but he didn\u2019t give up on his interest in cinema. He became a film reporter for via Yahoo Japan News. In that role, he writes news articles, picks out headliners for Yahoo News, as well as interviewing Hollywood film directors, actors, and producers working in the domestic circuit in the USA. He also does production interviews for Japanese distributors of American films and for in-theater on-sale programs. He is now the editor-in-chief of Cinemadailyus.com while continuing his work for Japan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Japanese Language Version Interview<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"dY9G5Bq-nlk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u30a4\u30af\u30b5\u30ac\u30df\uff1a\u85e4\u4e95\u9053\u4eba\u76e3\u7763\u5358\u72ec\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30d3\u30e5\u30fc\uff01\uff08292\u4eba\u306e\u6226\u95d8\u30b7\u30fc\u30f3\u306e\u88cf\u5074\u3068\u306f\uff1f\uff09\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dY9G5Bq-nlk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/interviews\/last-samurai-standing-exclusive-interview-with-junichi-okada-actor-action-choreographer-producer-junichi-okada\/\">Here&#8217;s our interview with lead actor Junichi Okada for &#8220;Last Samurai Standing.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32397 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Okada-1.png\" alt=\"Last Samurai Standing \" width=\"864\" height=\"1310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Okada-1.png 864w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Okada-1-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Okada-1-675x1024.png 675w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Okada-1-768x1164.png 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Okada-1-696x1055.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Last Samurai Standing<\/strong> : In 1878, 292 samurai gather for a battle royale lured by a 100 billion yen prize; wooden tags are given, and the last survivor reaching Tokyo wins.<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p><strong> Director<\/strong> : Michihito Fujii<\/p>\n<p><strong>Executive Producer<\/strong> : Shinichi Takahashi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Network<\/strong> : Netflix<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating<\/strong> : TV-MA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre<\/strong> : Action<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Language<\/strong> : Japanese<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date<\/strong> : Nov 13th<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you like the interview, share your thoughts below!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/nobuhosokigmail-com\/\">Check out more of Nobuhiro&#8217;s articles.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the trailer of the series.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"eLfE-WiHAWU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Last Samurai Standing | Official Trailer | Netflix\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eLfE-WiHAWU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out more of our Youtube Channel\u00a0 \u00a9Courtesy of Netflix Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s &#8220;A Clockwork Orange.\u201d After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on\u00a0\u00a0TV\u00a0Tokyo\u2019s program called&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,20471],"tags":[7030,20679,28381,28379,3840,6435,92,8202,4749,28707],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Last Samurai Standing&quot; : Exclusive Interview with Director Michihito Fujii<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Last Samurai Standing : In 1878, 292 samurais gather for a battle royale lured by a 100 thousand yen prize. 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