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Like a Dragon: Prologue(2006)
Status: Released
Date: 2006-03-24
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12 Votes
Time: 0h 43m
Overview:
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.
Languages: Japanese.
Countries:
Japan
ProductionCompanies: 
Raku Film
Movie: Like a Dragon: Prologue
Top 5 Billed Cast
Masakatsu Funaki
Kazuma Kiryu
大沢樹生
Akira Nishikiyama
前田綾花
Yumi Sawamura
曽根晴美
Sohei Dojima
本田博太郎
Shintaro Kazama
Video Trailer Like a Dragon: Prologue
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