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LIKE A DRAGON: YAKUZA Prime Video Live-Action Drama Hails October Launch

I’ve never seen Takashi Miike’s Like A Dragon adaptation based on the hit game. Maybe that will change one day with the possibility of Tubi streaming, particularly now that the game franchise is back in the headlines. Alas, shout out to Cesar Alejandro Jr. for looping me in on news that broke yesterday with 100 Yen Love and Underdog director Masaharu Take announced to direct Like a Dragon: Yakuza, for Prime Video. More verbiage on the game and its legacy below: Released in 2005 by SEGA, the ‘Yakuza’ game series was positioned as an entertaining game for adults, which found massive fanfare amongst its target audience. The series depicts the lives of fierce yet passionate gangsters and people living in a huge entertainment district, Kamurochō, a fictional district modeled after the violent Shinjuku ward’s Kabukichō, that acts as the backdrop of the gameplay. Like a Dragon: Yakuza showcases modern Japan […]

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LOVE YOU AS THE WORLD ENDS: THE MOVIE Teaser Reveals An Explosive Final Chapter To Ryoma Takeuchi’s Harrowing Quest

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Fans of the hit survival drama series Love You As The World Ends may now ready themselves as Toho preps its theatrical finale to the hit show, coming January 26. Series regulars Ryoma Takeuchi (Akira And Akira) and Ayami Nakajo (Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room – The Movie) reprise their roles joining a cast of new and returning faces from the hit show that firstly launched in 2021 via NTV and continued onward through Hulu Japan and Netflix Japan. Shintaro Sugawara, who shepherded the first two seasons of the four-part drama, directs the feature-length final entry which follows up on the story of Hibiki (Takeuchi) and Kurumi (Nakajo) as they fight desperately to survive the post-apocalyptic wasteland now riddled with zombies known as Golems. As the plot hints, the film’s story take its cues on some of the shocking twists of season two and will focus on Hibiki’s mission to […]

THE SUN DOES NOT MOVE: Thrilling Espionage, High-Speed Pursuits And Tatsuya Fujiwara…In A Box!

Lee B. Golden III

Gentosha’s Kazuhiko Takano book series is where the bet is at for Assassination Classroom 1 & 2 helmer Eiichiro Hasumi with The Sun Does Not Move. Tatsuya Fujiwara, fresh off of his latest title outing in manga adaptation threequel, Kaiji: Final Game, leads the espionage adventure thriller based on two books from the aforementioned series. Penned by Tamio Hayashi, Fujiwara is joined by Ryoma Takeuchi as agents of industrial spy organization “AN Tsuushin”, who find themselves up against a conspiracy involving a corporate and political power struggle over innovative solar energy technology. (SIDEBAR: I’m pretty sure it has something to do with whatever blip appears as a glowing dot in our protagonist’s chest, but…I digress). Also starring are Han Hyo-joo (Illang: The Wolf Brigade), Byun Yo-han (Mr. Sunshine), Hayato Ichihara (Three Nobubagas) and Sara Minami (Iwane: Sword Of Serenity) among others for the film’s May 15 release in Japan.