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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.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Japanese: 龍が如く 劇場版, Hepburn: Ryū ga Gotoku: Gekijōban, lit. "Like a Dragon: The Movie"), is a 2007 Japanese crime film directed by Takashi Miike, based on the 2005 PlayStation 2 video game Yakuza. The film stars Kazuki Kitamura, Goro Kishitani, Show Aikawa, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Kenichi Endō and Tomorowo ...
Like a Dragon: Yakuza [a] is a Japanese-language American crime action television series produced by Amazon MGM Studios, Wild Sheep Content, and 1212 Entertainment.It is a live-action adaptation of Sega's Like a Dragon video game series, and the first since the 2007 film Like a Dragon.
Yakuza 3: In March 2009, Kiryu now runs the Morning Glory Orphanage in Okinawa, where he raises nine children, including his surrogate daughter Haruka. When a business deal backed by members of the Tojo Clan threatens to tear down the orphanage, Kiryu travels from the beaches of Okinawa back to Kamurocho to confront new emerging threats within ...
Yakuza [a] is a 2005 action-adventure game developed and published by Sega for the PlayStation 2. It was released in December 2005 in Japan and in September 2006 internationally. The story follows Kazuma Kiryu, a yakuza who spent ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit. After being released, he learns that the criminal underworld is ...
Yakuza: Like a Dragon was the best selling print game during its first 4 days on sale in Japan, with 300,000 copies sold. [42] By March 2020, a total of 450,000 digital and physical copies had been sold in Japan and Asia. [43] By December 2023, Yakuza: Like a Dragon had sold 1.8 million units worldwide, with 400,000 of those units being sold in ...
The game was conceived to expand further on Kiryu's backstory between the events of Yakuza: Like a Dragon and its 2024 sequel, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. As such, the story of the game follows from Yakuza 6: The Song of Life then merges with the storyline of Yakuza: Like a Dragon.
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.