Amazon has introduced a Like a Dragon TV collection, and it is airing on Prime Video later this yr. Like a Dragon: Yakuza will span six episodes, three of which is able to arrive in late October, with the remaining three set to debut the next week.
In an announcement publish, Amazon says the collection will characteristic an “authentic story” based mostly on the franchise, so it would not sound as if Like a Dragon: Yakuza will adapt any specific sport within the Like a Dragon (nee Yakuza) collection.
With that being mentioned, it sounds just like the collection will hew fairly carefully to the primary sport; it’s going to happen in 1995 and 2005 and can characteristic Kazuma Kiryu as its protagonist.
Moving into the slightly intimidatingly giant sneakers of Kiryu is actor Ryoma Takeuchi, who performed the primary function in Kamen Rider Drive and in addition supplied the Japanese dub for Tim Goodman in the film Detective Pikachu.
Like a Dragon: Yakuza will probably be directed by Masaharu Take, a film and TV director whose works embody 100 Yen Love, which was submitted (however not nominated) because the Japanese entry for Greatest Overseas Language Movie on the 2015 Oscars.
Take says that he is “poured out my coronary heart, soul, and the expertise that I’ve garnered over 35 years” into the collection, and that it is becoming that Like a Dragon: Yakuza must be launched in “the yr of the dragon”.
For his half, Takeuchi says he is “actually honored” to be taking part in Kazuma Kiryu. He playfully directs viewers to “check out Kiryu’s intense combating scenes with the Dragon tattoo on his again”. Appears like these iconic shirtless rooftop battles will make an look within the present.
We do not but know which different iconic characters from the Like a Dragon-slash-Yakuza collection will probably be making an look in Prime Video’s collection. Hopefully, we’ll get to see regulars like Goro Majima and Haruka Sawamura develop their relationships with Kiryu.
Like a Dragon: Yakuza appears to be a part of a push Prime Video is making to create extra reveals based mostly on video video games.
It joins the likes of the critically-acclaimed Fallout, which launched earlier this yr, and the upcoming Tomb Raider collection, which boasts the involvement of author Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
We’ll get to see how Like a Dragon: Yakuza handles the story of Kazuma Kiryu when its first three episodes arrive on Prime Video on October twenty fifth. The concluding three episodes will subsequently arrive on November 1st.