Like a Dragon: Prologue

Like a Dragon Prologue, known in Japanese as Like a Dragon Prologue , Ry ga Gotoku Josh ? , is a 2006 Japanese crime drama Original Video directed by Takeshi Miyasaka with Takashi Miike as executive director. It is based upon Toshihiro Nagoshis 2005 video game Yakuza released on PlayStation 2.

During the 1970s three children, Kazuma Kiryu, Akira Nishikiyama a.k.a. Nishiki and his younger sister, Yuko Nishikiyama, are raised in Shintaro Kazama a.k.a. Fumas Sunflower Orphanage. In summer 1980, Yumi Sawamura, a young girl who had her parents incidentally shot during a gangs shootout joins them. Following a yakuza tradition, the honorable Kazama secretly raises orphans he has directly or indirectly killed the parents. In return, these children look at him as their father and he eventually introduces the teenagers in the Dojima Family, a Tojo Clan affiliate.Years later the promising Kazuma Kiryu quickly rises the yakuza hierarchy and earns the nickname the Dragon of the Dojima Family for the Dragon irezumi tattoo on his back hence the original title Like a Dragon , Ry ga Gotoku? . His childhood friend Nishikiyama his torn between loyalty for his kyodai yakuza brother and jealousy against the one who has always been Kazamas protg. Another subject of rivalry between the two friends is their secret love for Yumi who looks at them as her older brothers. 1990, in order to remain close to both of them, she left the orphanage and moved to Tokyos redlight district Kamurocho, where they found her a job as hostess at Reinas Serena bar. ........

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