First Teaser for Live-Action ‘Like A Dragon: Yakuza’ Streaming Series
by Alex Billington
July 27, 2024
Source: YouTube
Get a look at this new Japanese streaming series kicking ass this fall. Prime Video has unveiled a first look teaser trailer for a live-action adaptation of the video game series Yakuza made by SEGA. The new series is called Like A Dragon: Yakuza, fipping around the original game title Yakuza: Like A Dragon. They setup the premise: intense characters like Kazuma Kiryu navigate modern Japan’s underbelly. The dramatic series explores their lives and criminal underworld ties. The latest Yakuza video game is based around a character named Ichiban Kasuga, a low-ranking grunt within a yakuza family in Tokyo, who’s facing an 18-year prison sentence after taking the fall for a crime he didn’t commit, becoming an unlikely hero for the city’s outcasts on his journey. The Japanese action thriller series stars Ryoma Takeuchi as Kazuma Kiryu, Kento Kaku as Akira Nishikiyama, and Munetaka Aoki. This first teaser comes direct from San Diego Comic-Con and doesn’t show too much just yet, only a few clips of footage so far and a close-up of a tattoo needle. Fire it up.
Here’s the first look teaser trailer for Prime Video’s series Like A Dragon: Yakuza, direct from YouTube:
Originally released in 2005 by SEGA, the “Yakuza” game series was positioned as an entertaining game for adults, which found massive fanfare amongst its target audience. The series depicts the lives of fierce yet passionate gangsters and people living in a huge entertainment district, Kamurochō, a fictional district modeled after the violent Shinjuku ward’s Kabukichō, that acts as the backdrop of the gameplay. Like a Dragon: Yakuza showcases modern Japan and the dramatic stories of these intense characters, such as the legendary Kazuma Kiryu, that games in the past have not been able to explore. Like A Dragon: Yakuza is a new series created and written by Sean Crouch and Yugo Nakamura. With episodes directed by filmmakers Masaharu Take and Kengo Takimoto. Based on the video game series originally created by Toshihiro Nagoshi. Exec produced by Erik Barmack, Roberto Grande, Joshua Long. It’s made by Amazon MGM Studios, along with 1212 Entertainment, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, The Fool, and SEGA. Amazon debuts Like A Dragon: Yakuza series streaming on Prime Video starting October 24th, 2024 this fall. Who’s in?
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