Despite not playing the game series for his hard-hitting role, Like a Dragon: Yakuza’s Kiryu actor Ryoma Takeuchi is "looking forward" to playing them in future.

If you ask someone like me, who's really into the Yakuza/Like A Dragon games, why you should play the Yakuza/Like A Dragon games, fairly early on in the process there's a good chance they'll end just defaulting to grabbing you by the lapells and in their best husky Kiryu voice saying something like: 'Look, just play the damn things'.

Like a Dragon is Amazon’s second bite at the video game adaptation apple after the surprising success of its Fallout show. It stars Ryoma Takeuchi as Kazuma Kiryu, an orphaned youth who joins the Tojo yakuza clan with dreams of earning the title of Dragon of Dojima.

Like a Dragon is going global. The video game series, previously known as Yakuza in the West, has only grown in popularity since 2015's Yakuza 0, encompassing all manner of turn-based RPGs, secret agent brawlers, and pirate-themed adventures. Now, it's about to be plonked in front of millions of subscribers on Prime Video.

Yakuza, and while it might be a show about yakuza with an adapted storyline giving a different yet equally complicated plot, we're not sure who this is for.

Though I've never experienced any of the games in full, I have long been fascinated by the Like A Dragon series, or Yakuza as its known in the West. Apart

Yakuza Like A Dragon is set to debut on Amazon Prime Video and is based on the popular Yakuza series by Sega. But where is the series set and is it a real place in Japan?

Yakuza are mixed to negative, with a couple of positive ones. According to critics, the show fails to balance the melodrama with moments of comedy. The series was always going to be difficult to adapt because of how unique its presentation is.

Yakuza" doesn't have enough meat on its bones to justify its adaptation into a TV series, resulting in a slog of a show.