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Dead Souls is a non-canonical side story set during April 2011, one year after the events of Yakuza 4. [4] A sudden zombie outbreak spreads throughout Kamurocho, and is slowly quarantined as the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force is called in to contain the infection.
Kiryu and Kasuga ultimately stop a plan to lead ex-Yakuza to their deaths in a radioactive dumping ground but as it happens, Kiryu's death is revealed to the world as having been faked. Kiryu decides that life is still worth living, and though frail and weakened, attends treatment in hospital, now able to freely use the name Kazuma Kiryu once more.
Kazuma Kiryu (桐生 一馬, Kiryū Kazuma) is the main protagonist in the series. Born on June 17, 1968, [19] he was raised during the 1970s in the Sunflower Orphanage with Akira "Nishiki" Nishikiyama, who became his best friend, the latter's sister Yuko and Yumi Sawamura who joined in 1980. When he was a child, his parents were killed by ...
Yakuza: Dead Souls: Dead Souls is a non-canon story set during a zombie outbreak in Kamurocho. It was initially scheduled for Japanese release on March 17, 2011, [ 35 ] but the release was delayed to June 9, 2011, following the Tohoku earthquake on March 11, 2011. [ 36 ]
Kazuma Kiryu's role is played by actor Kazuki Kitamura, known outside of Japan for his roles in Shohei Imamura's The Eel, Takeshi Miike's Dead or Alive and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. [ 76 ] In September 2020, it was reported that Sega was developing a live-action adaptation for the video game with 1212 Entertainment and Wild Sheep Content.
In Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, players control Kazuma Kiryu as they explore the Sotenbori district of Osaka.The Isezaki Ijincho district of Yokohama, a location prominently featured in Yakuza: Like a Dragon and Lost Judgment, is also partially available during the first chapter of the story.
Goro Majima first appears in the original Yakuza game as a supporting character, head of the Majima Family and a lieutenant of Futoshi Shimano. Nicknamed "The Mad Dog of Shimano" (嶋野の狂犬, Shimano no Kyōken), he takes an interest in protagonist Kazuma Kiryu because Kiryu refuses to fight him when provoked.
He is the sworn brother and childhood best friend of series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu, famous for spending ten years in the joint, and who also insists on taking the blame for Nishiki after he murdered their boss, which resulted in Kiryu's expulsion from the Tojo Clan, the dominant yakuza organization in Tokyo, and his imprisonment for ten years ...