Like A Dragon: Yakuza Casts Home Of Ninjas Star As Its Tragic Villain

A live-action TV collection based mostly on Sega’s Yakuza and Like a Dragon video video games will start airing on October 25, and at San Diego Comedian-Con, extra casting particulars for the present have been revealed. Japanese actor and mannequin Ryoma Takeuchi’s casting as Kazuma Kiryu, the legendary Dragon of Dojima, was first revealed in June, and he’ll be joined by Kento Kaku as Akira Nishikiyama.

Within the Like a Dragon recreation collection, Nishikiyama grew up with Kazuma in an orphanage and was certainly one of his best allies earlier than the occasions of the primary Yakuza recreation. An advanced character, Nishikiyama murders the patriarch of the Dojima household, Sohei Dojima, to stop him from sexually assaulting his shut buddy Yumi Sawamura in Yakuza. Kazuma would willingly take the blame for Dojima’s homicide and serve a 10-year jail sentence in his place, and upon his launch, discovered that his sworn brother had radically modified within the final decade, placing the 2 on a collision course.

Kaku made his performing debut in 2007, and since then, has constructed up a number of credit in TV and movie initiatives. His newest lead function is in Home of Ninjas on Netflix, a collection a few household of ninjas who used to work for the federal government and are descended from Hattori Hanzo, a legendary shinobi.

The Like a Dragon: Yakuza Prime Video collection will span two time periods–1995 and 2005–and will observe not solely Kazuma Kiryu but additionally his childhood mates and the repercussions of his selections. Just like the video games, the present is aiming to stability intense motion scenes with drama, and might be set within the fictional Kamurocho district, which has been the principle stomping floor of the collection because it started within the early 2000s.

“Like a Dragon: Yakuza showcases trendy Japan and the dramatic tales of those intense characters, such because the legendary Kazuma Kiryu, that video games previously haven’t been capable of discover,” the official plot synopsis for the collection reads.