Prepare for an additional new journey with Kazuma Kiryu — this time in a live-action TV show.
We first realized in June that Amazon meant to adapt the online game franchise Like a Dragon (née Yakuza) into a live-action Japanese sequence. We knew it will be a six-episode sequence launched in two three-episode chunks — the primary batch on Oct. 24 and the remaining on Nov. 1 — and that it will comply with Kiryu (performed by Ryoma Takeuchi of Kamen Rider Drive) and his associates in what looks as if an adaptation of the primary sport, Yakuza. At San Diego Comic-Con, we realized a bit extra — significantly that Home of Ninjas’ Kento Kaku will painting organized crime boss Nishiki, Kiryu’s difficult former childhood pal.
The gangster cleaning soap opera Like a Dragon sequence has been a massive success each in Japan and overseas, with 9 predominant video games within the sequence, tons of spin-offs, and loads of current variations into different media. (Maybe most important for this undertaking: Takashi Miike directed Like a Dragon: The Film, additionally primarily based on the primary sport within the sequence.) The most recent entry, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, is an absolute delight, and considered one of our favourite video games of the 12 months.
The Like a Dragon show comes within the wake of Prime Video’s extremely profitable adaptation of the Fallout online game sequence, and broader curiosity from the leisure trade in adapting massive online game properties.
The sequence is directed by Masaharu Take, with a story by Sean Crouch and Yugo Nakamura, and a Japanese screenplay by Yoshida Yasuhiro and Yamada Kana.
The largest query left: Will the show embrace the sport sequence’ well-known mini-games (and their delightfully foolish tone)? I’m anxiously anticipating seeing Dondoko Island in live-action, or somebody making an attempt to grow to be a Sujimon grasp. For the reason that sequence seems to be adapting the primary sport, the possibilities appear fairly slim, however we are able to dream.
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