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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 ...
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.
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. It follows Kazuma Kiryu (Ryoma Takeuchi), a former yakuza who after years in prison, returns to the underworld during a vast conspiracy involving his best friend Akira Nishikiyama and their former Dojima family. [1]
Yakuza 6 returns to having just a single protagonist – Kazuma Kiryu – and for a long while it seemed like it would be the last game to feature the leading man in the leading role.
The primary protagonist of the Yakuza / Like a Dragon franchise is Kazuma Kiryu, who is playable in every numbered entry of the main video game series through Yakuza 6: The Song of Life. Some games, such as Yakuza 4 and Yakuza 5 , feature multiple playable characters, with players switching between them at predetermined points in the story.
The movie was shot on location in Tokyo's Kabukicho (歌舞伎町) district which itself served as a basis for the background design of the game's Kamurocho area.. In 1970s-era Japan, three children, Kazuma Kiryu, Akira Nishikiyama (a.k.a. Nishiki), and his younger sister, Yuko Nishikiyama, are raised together in Shintaro Kazama (a.k.a. Fuma)'s Sunflower Orphanage.
Daniel added that the scene was “a little intense.” The couple, who tied the knot in 2006, share three children, sons Ryland and Colt — who were born in 2004 and 2008, respectively — and ...