If you’ve ever played Yakuza (Like a Dragon), then you know how much the game is like a movie or TV show. So it’s no surprise that it’s the next video game series to get a real-life version coming to Amazon Prime Video later this year. Called “Like a Dragon: Yakuza,” the show will start on October 25, 2024, with the rest of the episodes coming on November 1, 2024.
According to the press release, the show will have six episodes and will be about crime and action. It will tell a new story based on the first Yakuza game from 2005. It’s about Kazuma Kiryu, who used to be in the yakuza. We all remember that he had to go to prison for his sworn brother, which caused a lot of strife in the organization. However, what’s interesting about the show is that the story will look at Kiryu’s life in 1995 and 2005 when he was in prison.
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Our guess is that they’re either not going to follow the Dojima murder plotline or Kiryu didn’t take the blame for his sworn brother.
It will be directed by Masaharu Take, famous for his work on the drama series The Naked Director. The show will feature Japanese actor Ryoma Takeuchi as Kazuma Kiryu. Takeuchi is known for his roles in different Kamen Rider projects and the Japanese version of Detective Pikachu.
According to the announcement, the show will have really exciting fight scenes that remind you of video games and will focus on the characters’ personal stories. You can watch it all over the world on Prime Video, with words at the bottom of the screen or voices in 30 different languages.
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If you’ve played the series at all, you’ll know none of it is in English. It never gets dubbed for the US, so players are used to the subtitles, and we know the voice of Kiryu as his Japanese actor. It’s going to be interesting to see it in English.
Like a Dragon: Yakuza is the newest example of video games being turned into TV shows. Amazon Studios is following the popularity of their Fallout show with this new one, and other companies like HBO are also working on turning games like The Last of Us and God of War into TV series. We hope that this one takes off, too.
