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Crime / Drama
Third son Raizo is a good man, but when another organization targets his father and his family business, it awakens his violent side.
Despite being born as a son of a yakuza patriarch, Raizo lives a normal life. But when his father falls ill, conflict brews with the Horyu Clan.
Now the head of the Minobe Family, Raizo finds that his older brother Reiji has been released from prison and has ambitions to lead the family.
As the legendary Yakuza Takemitsu returns as an adviser to Raizo, the Horyu clan moves to form an alliance against the Minobe family's growing power.
The Minobe family finds itself on a collision course with the Suruga Kuromasa family, an organization that grew through unrestrained violence.
With the Minobe and Suruga Kuromasa families on the verge of an all-out war and Raizo in police custody, the Kanto Shido Mutsumi Alliance makes its move.
A deadly clash looms as the Kanto Alliance works behind the scenes and Kansai's Goda family sets its sights on a company Takemitsu wants to protect.
The up-and-coming Konoe family picks up where Goda left off, facing off with the Minobe family both on the streets and in financial maneuvering.
As internal strife tears apart the powerful Yamakura family and Raizo is caught in the resulting police crackdown, the Kanto Alliance moves quietly.
Raizo Minobe
Kiyomasa Takemitsu
Nakabayashi
Makoto Kanie
Ushio
Kiyoshiro Obi
Kushida
45-year-old Mitsuo Komae works for an advertising company. He gets demoted from the head office in Tokyo to a branch office in the province. He has to leave his wife and daughter in Tokyo to work at the branch office. There, Mitsuo Komae begins work as the branch office manager which only has 2 employees. Needing to pay for the mortgage on his house and support his student daughter, he seeks ways to increase sales. One day, Mitsuo Komae receives a phone call from a client. The client is CEO Ryuzaki. Mitsuo Komae’s branch office made leaflets for CEO Ryuzaki's company, but a silly mistake was done in the leaflets. CEO Ryuzaki is furious. Making things even worse, CEO Ryuzaki is a yakuza. Mitsuo Komae is in big trouble.
The hardened veteran detective Rena and bright-eyed rookie Sato take on a menial investigation. The job goes well until a thug named Dobu steals their evidence. Disheartened, they take a job looking into the life of a taxi driver named Odokawa in hopes of redeeming themselves. They wind up in the middle of a missing girl case, with gangsters, aspiring students, and surprises around every corner.
"Ouroboros" is an ancient symbol that depicts a snake eating its own tail - meaning infinity. Based on a popular comic, a clumsy detective and a cool gang stand up to true evil. Ikuo and Tatsuya grew up in a children's orphanage together. When their favorite teacher, Yuiko, is murdered, a policeman wearing a gold watch covers up the incident. Ikuo and Tatsuya promise each other to avenge their teacher someday. Twenty years later, Ikuo is a detective in Shinjuku second police station investigating various cases with elite detective - Mizuki, while smart and handsome Tatsuya has become one of the top members of a gang group.
Isaku just wants to live a normal life. But as the granddaughter of a yakuza boss, that’s a pretty tall order. For years, it’s been difficult for Isaku to make friends and find love. So, she decides to enroll in a high school far from her hometown in hopes of a fresh start. But her plans take an unexpected turn when a worried member of the yakuza, Keiya, enrolls in the same school to protect her.
The first installment in the Yakuza/Like a Dragon franchise, which has shipped over 30 million copies worldwide, has been adapted into a live action work that remains almost faithful to the original. Produced by the cast and staff of the hugely popular franchise Unification of Japan, which depicts the Japanese underworld, the adaptation is fully supervised by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio. The story follows the events leading up to the video game Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties.
Cast
Juichi Minobe
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