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Koichi Yamadera (山寺 宏一, Yamadera Kōichi, born June 17, 1961) is a Japanese actor, narrator and singer from Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture. [1] [2] He graduated from Tohoku Gakuin University's economics school and is currently affiliated with Across Entertainment.
Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama (Japanese); Ron Yuan (Yakuza: Like a Dragon) (English) Introduced in: Yakuza 4. Taiga Saejima (冴島 大河, Saejima Taiga) is one of the four playable characters in Yakuza 4. A 45-year-old physically imposing former yakuza who was sentenced to death for having killed 18 members of the Ueno Seiwa Clan by himself in 1985.
For Yakuza Kiwami, the remake of the original Yakuza, Nishiki's role in the narrative is expanded, with his motivations being more clearly explained. He is voiced by Kazuhiro Nakaya in Japanese, and by Michael Rosenbaum in the English version of the first game.
Since the 2008 spin-off Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan!, the game series' main characters have their face modeled in 3D after their voice actors. As in the Virtua Fighter series, Western main and minor characters do not speak in Japanese, but rather in English. Minor Chinese and Korean characters also often speak their native tongues.
Kazuma Kiryu (Japanese: 桐生 一馬, Hepburn: Kiryū Kazuma) is a fictional character and the initial main protagonist of Sega's action-adventure beat 'em up Japanese role-playing game series Yakuza / Like a Dragon.
It took the foundation that Yakuza 4 built and had five playable characters — Saejima and Akiyama return alongside Kiryu, and Kiryu’s adoptive daughter Haruka Sawamura and baseballer-turned ...
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.
Rikiya Koyama (小山 力也, Koyama Rikiya, born December 18, 1963) is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator currently affiliated with Haiyuza Theatre Company.He has done popular voicing roles in Hajime no Ippo, Utawarerumono, Kamen no Maid Guy and Yakuza, and has become well known for voicing Yamato in Naruto Shippuden and Kogoro Mouri (second voice, 2009–present) in Case Closed.