Like a Dragon: Prologue (2006)

Original title

龍が如く 〜序章〜

Directed by

Takashi Miike

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

Japan

Runtime

43 min

Rated

18

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A prequel to the Yakuza video game series. It follows Kazuma Kiryu as a young man in the criminal underworld of Tokyo. The story shows events before the first game.

darkgrittyseriousslow-burnintensemelancholicmethodicalgrounded

What happens

Like a Dragon ~ Prologue ~ (龍が如く 〜序章〜, Ryū ga Gotoku ~ Joshō ~), also known as Like a Dragon: Prologue, is a 2006 Japanese crime drama original video film directed by Takeshi Miyasaka with Takashi Miike as executive director. It is based upon Toshihiro Nagoshi's 2005 video game Ryū ga Gotoku, known in the West as Yakuza, released on PlayStation 2. This drama stars puroresu champion Masakatsu Funaki in the title role and is a prequel to the inaugural installment of the Yakuza series, which was itself adapted by Takashi Miike as Like a Dragon: The Movie in 2007. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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