A brand new preview trailer for Like a Dragon: Yakuza is right here, and it reveals off far more Majima tongue than I anticipated.
We’re lower than a month away from the most recent live-action adaptation of the beloved Yakuza sequence, and a brand new trailer for the Japanese Prime Video YouTube channel has supplied up one other have a look at a few of the already established characters like primary finest man Kazuma Kiryu and his proper hand man Akira Nishikiyama. However this trailer can be one for the Goro Majima lovers, because it revealed a primary have a look at the fan favorite character in movement. This explicit incarnation of the character is being portrayed by Munetaka Aoki, who actually seems to be like he is giving it his all on this very temporary teaser trailer (particularly within the tongue division).
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Aoki is definitely doubling up Yakuza roles funnily sufficient, because the actor can be starring within the not too long ago introduced (and extremely wild wanting) Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii as new character Teruhiko Shigaki. You additionally may need seen him in final yr’s Godzilla Minus One, as he was one of many principal members of the forged. We’re nonetheless but to listen to him converse in any of the trailers, as Majima’s authentic voice actor Hidenari Ugaki clearly has fairly an iconic sound to him, in order that’s one space we’ll have to attend and see if he can maintain a candle to the sport’s efficiency.
Although if he differs from the sport’s model of Majima, do not be all that shocked, as again in July live-action Kiryu actor Ryoma Takeuchi spoke about taking up the function, and who he does not suppose there’s any level in “making an attempt to surpass the unique recreation,” so he is doing issues his “personal manner.”
Like a Dragon: Yakuza is at the moment set to air subsequent month, October 24, on Prime Video.