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Like a Dragon: Prologue
Like a Dragon: Prologue

Like a Dragon: Prologue

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DramaCrime

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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.

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Budget

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Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Runtime

43 mins

Rating

6/10

Release Date

24 March 2006

Country

Japan

Cast

Masakatsu Funaki

Masakatsu Funaki

Kazuma Kiryu

Mikio Osawa

Mikio Osawa

Akira Nishikiyama

Ayaka Maeda

Ayaka Maeda

Yumi Sawamura

Harumi Sone

Harumi Sone

Sohei Dojima

Hirotaro Honda

Hirotaro Honda

Shintaro Kazama

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