Like a Dragon: Prologue
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In 1970s-era Japan, three children, Kazuma Kiryu, Akira Nishikiyama, and his younger sister, Yuko Nishikiyama, are raised together in Shintaro Kazama's Sunflower Orphanage. In the summer of 1980, Yumi Sawamura, a young girl whose parents were accidentally shot and killed during a gang's shootout, joins them in the orphanage. Following a yakuza tradition, the honorable Kazama secretly raises orphans whose parents he has directly or indirectly killed. In return, the children love him as a father and he eventually inducts the teenage Kiryu and Nishikiyama into the Dojima Family, a Tojo Clan affiliate of which he is a senior officer.
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Part of Like a Dragon Collection
2 films
Cast
6 people
Masakatsu Funaki
Kazuma Kiryu
Known for
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie
Godzilla: Final Wars
Mikio Ohsawa
Akira Nishikiyama
Mikio Osawa
Akira Nishikiyama
Known for
Graveyard of Honor
Ayaka Maeda
Yumi Sawamura
Also in
Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete
Dead Girl Walking
Harumi Sone
Sohei Dojima
Known for
Gozu
Graveyard of Honor
Hirotaro Honda
Shintaro Kazama
Known for
Kamen Rider
Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe
Takashi Miike Director · Takeshi Miyasaka Director Masaru Nakamura Writer
United States release August 16, 2006 · Produced in Japan · Production Raku Film
Production
SEGA
Production
Raku Film
Production
Japan
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Original title
龍が如く 〜序章〜
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · March 24, 2006
Physical
United States · August 16, 2006
Physical
Germany
October 20, 2008 · Physical · Beilage im DVD Release von Like a Dragon
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