At the Asakusa View Hotel on October 24, 2004, a gang member shot four yakuza from a rival syndicate — two fatally — after a discussion intensified. At the time of the incident, about members of the ...

Despite being a public official, Hisanobu Komatsu, 72, had ties to organized crime and was considered the “Don of the City Council” while in office. The truth of the collusion that had been going on ...

These semi-realistic crime thrillers are a ton of fun to play, and while each of them has a fresh new story, and sometimes, ...

Broken Rage, Takeshi Kitano's goofball spoof of his own brutal yakuza crime movies, is streaming worldwide on Prime starting on February 14th ...

Unlike the recent Like a Dragon games, however, the combat isn’t turn-based. It’s more of the real-time beat-‘em-up style from earlier Yakuza games. See our Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii ...

Teruko Nakazawa once intervened in a knife fight between an ex-offender and their mother -- all in a day's unpaid work for ...

The latest entry in Sega and RGG's beloved series isn't shying away from being wacky or having a lot of extra content.

"If you work with us, we'll let you off the hook." Prime Video in Japan has revealed a trailer for Broken Rage, a unique Takeshi Kitano film ready for release on streaming in the next few months. This ...

The Yakuza series has no shortage of weird and wonderful games. From the serious but goofy at times mainline entries to its plethora of historical spinoffs, prequels, and side stories. There’s ...

As someone who has only casually engaged with the Yakuza / Like a Dragon series, I’m fascinated with its ability to sway in ...

Yakuza has shapeshifted from a crime drama beat-em-up to a turn-based RPG, a spy thriller, and a historical samurai tale, and as the series continues to swap genres like clothes, it’s starting ...

Early in Yakuza: Like a Dragon's story ... The years had gone on in his eighteen-year prison sentence, serving time for a crime he did not commit for the sake of the Arakawa family.