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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The Legend of the Ando Family: The Road to Hell
Graveyard of Honor
Yakuza Ladies: The Final Battle
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IMDB 6.6 | Oct , 2001
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 2016
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IMDB 6.2 | Jul , 1983
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IMDB 6 | Apr , 2002
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