Like a Dragon (film)

The film stars Kazuki Kitamura, Goro Kishitani, Show Aikawa, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Kenichi Endō and Tomorowo Taguchi.

The English-subtitled version premiered on June 23, 2008, at New York Asian Film Festival,[2] and was released on DVD in North America on February 23, 2010, by an affiliate of Media Blasters.

The plot is loosely based on the original Yakuza game and is a separate, "one-night-story" that unfolds in a hot summer night in Kamurocho, the fictitious version of Tokyo Shinjuku's Kabukichō.

The night begins with a bank robbery by a manzai duo of amateur masked gunmen, and the disappearance of ten billion yen belonging to the Tojo Clan, a powerful yakuza syndicate.

Elsewhere in the district, a mysterious Korean hitman, Park, tracks down the culprit behind the Tojo Clan heist, which leads him towards the infamous Jingu, a figure also known as Mister N, and the Kamurocho landmark, the Millennium Tower.

The movie was shot on location in Tokyo 's Kabukicho district which itself served as a basis for the background design of the game's Kamurocho area.
The Shinjuku Koma Theater , a main landmark in both the games and the movie version