Info In Movie News | Ryoma Takeuchi, a Japanese actor, has been confirmed to play the lead role in the highly anticipated new series, Like a Dragon: Yakuza. The series dramatizes the storyline of the famous Sega video game.
Kato Kaku is also one of the main characters who will be acting as Takeuchi's counterpart in Like a Dragon: Yakuza.
Ryoma Takeuchi will be portraying Kazuma Kiryu, a highly respected yakuza member, while Kaku will be representing Akira Nishikiyama, Kiryu's loyal childhood friend.
Like a Dragon: Yakuza depicts the life of a yakuza member, Kazuma Kiryu, through two different periods in his life; one is back to 1995 and the other is in 2005.
Once a ruthless and tough yakuza, Kiryu goes back to his childhood friend Akira Nishikiyama.
Like a Dragon: Yakuza teaser trailer was released at Comic-Con San Diego on July 27, Saturday. Takeuchi and Ryoma also showed up for the event to share their new series trailer.
The 1-minute and 19-second teaser mainly displays dragon tattoo designs which are the yakuza's members' symbol, alongside the shots of Kiryu (Takeuchi), Nishikiyama (Kaku), and the underworld crime life.
Like a Dragon: Yakuza is a dramatization of the "Like a Dragon" video game, which was developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega in 2020.
This is the 8th entry in the Yakuza game series and the first one is a role-playing video game (RPG).
On the other hand, Like a Dragon: Yakuza is a film by Masaharu Take and Takimoto Kengo. Take has directorial credits for "The Naked Director" series (2019-2021).
Sean Crouch and Yugo Nakamura are the writers for the show, while Yoshida Yasuhiro and Yamada Kana take care of the screenplay of the Japanese version.
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