Amazon has released its first teaser video for Like A Dragon: Yakuza, its live action adaptation of SEGA’s Yakuza games, at San Diego Comic-Con. There’s a lot of focus on the inking process of Kazuma Kiryu’s iconic dragon tattoo, but you’ll also get glimpses of Kamurocho’s night scene, various characters in the series and the underground fight club that shows up as a mini-game across the franchise. In the last few seconds of the video, you’ll see a shirtless Kiryu heading to a circle of cheering viewers betting on his match. 

When the company announced the show in June, it described the adaptation as a “crime-suspense-action series” that “follows the life, childhood friends, and repercussions of the decisions of Kazuma Kiryu, a fearsome and peerless Yakuza warrior with a strong sense of justice, duty, and humanity.” Seeing as the show is set between 1995 and 2005, it will most like be based on the first Yakuza game with glimpses of the years that took place after the events in Yakuza 0.

The first three of episodes of Like A Dragon: Yakuza will arrive on Prime Video on October 24, with the next three coming on October …read more

Amazon has released its first teaser video for Like A Dragon: Yakuza, its live action adaptation of SEGA’s Yakuza games, at San Diego Comic-Con. There’s a lot of focus on the inking process of Kazuma Kiryu’s iconic dragon tattoo, but you’ll also get glimpses of Kamurocho’s night scene, various characters in the series and the underground fight club that shows up as a mini-game across the franchise. In the last few seconds of the video, you’ll see a shirtless Kiryu heading to a circle of cheering viewers betting on his match. 

When the company announced the show in June, it described the adaptation as a “crime-suspense-action series” that “follows the life, childhood friends, and repercussions of the decisions of Kazuma Kiryu, a fearsome and peerless Yakuza warrior with a strong sense of justice, duty, and humanity.” Seeing as the show is set between 1995 and 2005, it will most like be based on the first Yakuza game with glimpses of the years that took place after the events in Yakuza 0.

The first three of episodes of Like A Dragon: Yakuza will arrive on Prime Video on October 24, with the next three coming on October …read more