The Like a Dragon video game franchise, also known as Yakuza, is getting a live-action TV adaptation, streaming on Prime Video starting in October.
Get ready for another new adventure with Kazuma Kiryu — this time in a live-action TV show.
We first learned in June that Amazon intended to adapt the video game franchise Like a Dragon (née Yakuza) into a live-action Japanese series. We knew it would be a six-episode series released in two three-episode chunks — the first batch on Oct. 24 and the rest on Nov. 1 — and that it would follow Kiryu (played by Ryoma Takeuchi of Kamen Rider Drive) and his friends in what seems like an adaptation of the first game, Yakuza. At San Diego Comic-Con, we learned a bit more — particularly that House of Ninjas’ Kento Kaku will portray organized crime boss Nishiki, Kiryu’s complicated former childhood friend.
