Last One Standing (Japanese TV series)

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Last One Standing (Japanese: トークサバイバー！～トークが面白いと生き残れるドラマ～, Hepburn: Tōkusabaibā! ~Tōku ga omoshiroi to ikinokoreru dorama~, transl. Talk Survivor! ~Survive The Drama with Interesting Stories~) is a 2022 crime drama/comedy reality show, produced by Netflix and launched on the streaming service on March 8, 2022. It stars the comedy duo Chidori and features a number of Japanese comedians as contestants.

The story is a crime drama which starts at the NF High School, where a precious painting has been stolen from the principal's office. Several times each episode, a character would pose a question to the contestants, who also play roles in the drama and would then drop character and tell a story relevant to the question. In the end of each episode, one or more contestants would be eliminated from the contest and also removed from the plot.^[2]

Last One Standing was inspired by the "Dramatic Heartbreak King" segments of the variety show Neo Battle Variety: King-chan [ja], which was also produced by Nobuyuki Sakuma and hosted by Chidori, and aired primarily on TV Tokyo for three seasons from 2016 to 2018.^[3]

Last One Standing became Netflix's most popular show in Japan after its premiere.^[4] Decider rated the show "Stream It", commenting that it is "fun watching the contestants trying to one-up each other" and contrasted it to the "serious and dramatic" plot.^[2] The Times of India rated it 3.5 out of five stars, similarly praised its "entertaining" combination of suspenseful elements with light-hearted humor and suggested it might inspire an Indian adaptation.^[5]

Nobu (Chidori)^[1]

• Karen Takizawa
• Shiori Sato (Seasons 1−2)
• Reina Triendl (Season 1)
• Manatsu Akimoto (Season 3)

• Shotaro Mamiya as Saiki
• Hikaru Takahashi as Misato
• Masahiro Higashide as Sudo
• Koki Okada as Kubota
• Yuki Morinaga as Sakurai
• Kaito Yoshimura as Student
• Nadal as Student
• Takenori Goto as Iwata
• Mikie Hara as Teacher
• Yoshifumi Sakai as Teacher
• Yoshiyuki Morishita

• Murderville

• Last One Standing on Netflix