Prime Video continues to pursue video game adaptations for its television productions. After the success of Fallout, the Amazon company will try a second shot with Like a Dragon: Yakuzaa live-action adaptation of the video game series now known as Like a Dragon and once known as Yakuza (in the West only).
We know that the main characters will be played by actors Ryoma Takeuchi and Kento Kaku. The two have perhaps experience with the video game series? Actually not really and he was actually banned from trying out video games.
Like a Dragon: Yakuza Actors Explained
“I know these games, everyone in the world knows them,” Takeuchi told GamesRadar. “But I’ve never played them. I’d like to try them, but [il team creativo dello show] he had to stop me because they wanted – for the character in the script – to explore his story from scratch. That’s why I decided not to play.“. This is not a strange choice, but on the contrary it is the norm in this type of production: even in the case of The Last of Us it was the same.
“I definitely knew the property very well, but I didn’t realize the franchise was so big globally. We decided to make our own versionto relive the characters, to take their spiritual elements and embody them for ourselves. There was a clear line that we wanted to draw, but all that was underlying it was respect.”
Let us remember that Takeuchi will play the main character of the series, Kazuma Kiryuwhile Kaku will play his childhood friend, Akira Nishikiyama. The series is inspired by the first video game, but tells the story in a different way, also leaving aside the less serious components in favor of a more realistic approach.
Like a Dragon: Yakuza will debut on Prime Video on October 24. Finally, we leave you with the first trailer of the TV series.
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