Like a Dragon: Prologue
Mar 24, 2006 | IMDB 6
43 min Watch NowDrama, Crime
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.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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Rainy Dog
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Dead Angle
Tale on Tokai Chivalry
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IMDB 0 | Feb , 1974
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 2013
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IMDB 0 | Nov , 2020
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IMDB 7 | Oct , 2022
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IMDB 0 | Sep , 1964
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IMDB 0 | Sep , 1960
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IMDB 6 | Sep , 1973
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IMDB 5.5 | Jan , 2001
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IMDB 3.6 | Feb , 2014
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IMDB 6.4 | Aug , 1991
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