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Prime Video has launched the official trailer for Like a Dragon: Yakuza, providing a peek on the new live-action adaptation of SEGA’s well-liked online game sequence. It seems as if we’ll get to see a whole lot of the beat em’ up motion that the video games are recognized for.
To not be confused with Yakuza: Like a Dragon, the six-episode motion sequence follows Japanese gangster Kiryu Kazuma (Kamen Rider‘s Takeuchi Ryoma) in each 1995 and 2005. In 1995, Kiryu and his buddies plan a heist which places them within the path of the Dojima Household, a robust yakuza organisation who run Kamurocho’s underworld. The heist in all probability does not go all that properly, contemplating that ten years later Kiryu is being launched from jail. Even so, it appears his violent days are nonetheless removed from over, with Kiryu returning to Kamurocho to guard his buddies after studying that they’re in peril.
It is not clear whether or not Like a Dragon: Yakuza will embrace among the famously bizarre and humorous parts which make the video games so distinctive. Nonetheless, judging from a fast shot of two girls in formal apparel, it seems as if the fan-favourite cabaret membership minigame will a minimum of get a shout out. Fingers crossed we’ll additionally get to see Kiryu attempting each single tonkatsu joint within the metropolis.
Like a Dragon: Yakuza arrives Oct. 24 on Prime Video.
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