Like a Dragon: Yakuza (2024)
- Directed by
- Masaharu Take
- Genre
- action television series, drama television series, crime television series, thriller television series, mystery television series
- Country
- Japan
- Length
- 1 season, 6 episodes
- Rated
- TV-14
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 62 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A former yakuza is released from prison after a decade. He tries to build a new life but gets pulled into a conspiracy involving his old crime organization.
tensegrittyslow-burnmelancholicsuspensefulemotionaldarkatmospheric
What happens
Like a Dragon: Yakuza is a Japanese-language American crime action television series produced by Amazon MGM Studios, Wild Sheep Content, and 1212 Entertainment. It is a live-action adaptation of Sega's Like a Dragon video game series, and the first since the 2007 film Like a Dragon. It follows Kazuma Kiryu (Ryoma Takeuchi), a former yakuza released after a ten-year sentence for taking the fall for a murder committed by Akira Nishikiyama (Kento Kaku). While trying to rebuild his life, Kiryu becomes caught up in a conspiracy involving his former organization, the Tojo Clan. The series borrows the characters and setting of the original 2005 Yakuza game as well as its 2016 remake Yakuza Kiwami, but the story is a loose adaptation and follows an original plot, though some major plot-points are retained. The project was initially announced as a film before being retrofitted into a television series instead. It premiered on Amazon Prime Video with the first three episodes on October 24, 2024, and with the remaining three on November 1, 2024. The series received mixed reviews, praising the series for the performances, especially from Ryoma Takeuchi and Kento Kaku, but criticized it for its inconsistent pacing, unrefined editing and the lack of fidelity towards the source material. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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