The Japanese live-action production follows Kazuma Kiryu in 1995 and 2005
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After the massive success of its Fallout series, Amazon has moved quickly to follow it up with another video game adaptation. Like a Dragon: Yakuza, a Japanese live-action production based on Sega's long-running series of gangster soaps, will be released on Prime Video worldwide on October 25, 2024.
Well, at least half do. It is a six-episode series, to be released in two parts: the first three episodes on October 25th and the next three on November 1st.
The series follows series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu and his friends across two time periods, 1995 and 2005 – suggesting an adaptation of the first game, which came out in 2005 and followed Kazuma after he was released from a 10-year prison sentence. Kazuma is played by Ryoma Takeuchi, the star of the Kamen Rider Drive series. The series is directed by Masaharu Take, with a story by Sean Crouch and Nakamura Yugo, and a Japanese screenplay by Yoshida Yasuhiro and Yamada Kana.
