Like a Dragon
- Kazuki Kitamura: Kazuma Kiryu
- Gorō Kishitani: Majima Gorō
- Natsuo: Haruka Sawamura
- Saki Takaoka: Mizuki / Yumi Sawamura
- Kurōdo Maki: Akira Nishikiyama
- Sansei Shiomi: Shintaro Kazama
- Haruhiko Katō: Kazuki
- Saeko: Yui
- Shun Shioya Satoru
- Yoo Gong: Park, contract killer
- Yutaka Matsushige: Makoto Date
- Shō Aikawa: Commissioner Noguchi
- Ken'ichi Endō: Imanishi, Bank Robber
- YosiYosi Arakawa: Beam, arms dealer
Like a Dragon (Japanese龍が如く 劇場 版, ryu ga gotoku: Gekijōban, dt "Like a Dragon: movie version ") is a Japanese- Korean gangster thriller from director Takashi Miike Toei from 2007 The structured episodic video game adaptation was. on motives of the same Sega action game series that is known outside Japan under the simple name Yakuza ( Ryu ga Gotoku ). The screenplay was written by Masashi Sogo.
The film was released on March 3, 2007 in Japan and October 20, 2008 in Germany.
Action
Kamuro -chō (神 室町), a fictional Tokyo district in Shinjuku district, groans and moans under record temperatures. While the energy-sapping heat wave is immediately counted the events. In several parallel episodes, the main characters are introduced, their experiences are loosely linked.
In the evening raided two debile a bank robber without capture even a greater amount of cash. The deposits of the bank, around ten billion yen in the Tōjō clans have disappeared without a trace. The masked men suspected nothing at this time of her failed coup and take some employees and customers hostage. The action keeps the overworked Commissioner Noguchi in breathing. Date colleague pursued with the necessary distance events. In a subplot, the petite Yui robbed at her anxious friend Satoru from various shops to outstanding liabilities and fund an abortion can.
Meanwhile, the innocent for murder on former Oyabun ( godparents ) imprisoned ex- yakuza Kazuma Kiryu end after serving a ten year prison sentence dismissed. The purified gangsters tried to roll up his life. But shortly after his release, he is received with hostility by thugs of a rival clan and entangled in a brutal fist fights, from which it is apparent victorious. Kiryu, who stood before his arrest shortly before starting their own clan, is accompanied by small Haruka, the supposed niece of a childhood friend. The gifted fighter follows his protective instincts and supports the little girl in their search for missing relatives. He also tries to seek Kazama, the current Oyabun and Chairman of the Tōjō Syndicate, which he once belonged. Kazama is kidnapped but already at this time.
The missing money quickly awakens desires in the Japanese underworld, which is divided into several yakuza clans. Kazama hires shortly before his abduction a South Korean professional killer to a corrupt politicians, which is associated with the disappearance of billions. At the same time also follows a psychopathic one-eyed man named Majima Gorō, leader of a syndicate own family, on Kiryūs tracks. The two men combines an old love-hate relationship.
Eventually met Kiryu Kazama Oyabun who pretends from Nishikiyama - clan, a breakaway group of the syndicate, to have been abducted. The underworld size Kiryu explained the circumstances surrounding his disappearance. The loyal subordinates arises then Akira, his longtime childhood friend. The conspirators is defeated in a final effort of Kiryu. Then the main character Haruka's mother make representations to the robber of ten billion yen. A happy ending seems within reach for small Haruka, but her mother, who is somehow also the aunt 's goals. She wants to assassinate a corrupt politician with a vengeance, the park, the South Korean killer strikes down timely manner. There will be a huge explosion, the boatloads of money bills swirls in the air and spread over the city. Haruka's mother dies. At the end of the film the little Haruka stays with Kiryu.
Reviews
The lexicon of the International film wrote the film was a " staged a furious action film for a computer game that is not for psychological niceties " of interest, but " straight to the point " come.