Like a Dragon: Prologue.

[dancingstar93]

Thought I'd throw this in here. Before the somewhat messy Takeshi Miike movie tenuously based on the main plot of the first Yakuza game, Sega had a 40-minute straight-to-video live action feature made, Ryû ga Gotoku ~Joshô~ (Like a Dragon: Prologue) which besides adapting key events of the game's prologue gives some extended backstory on Kiryu, Nishiki, Yumi et al.

A somewhat ropy subtitled version is on Youtube via the YakuzaFan blog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4yEM7iww-M

[Stormcaller]

Yeah the Miike movie was a rollercoaster ride.
I feel that Like a Dragon Prologue is genuinely well done though, even if it also doesn't follow the games entirely, it does it well enough and invokes some genuine emotions too

[medion_no]

Very neat. Shame is not in better quality.

[Duckilous]

medion_no eredeti hozzászólása:

Very neat. Shame is not in better quality.

This is probably a better quality version of this film but it's separated into four parts:
https://youtu.be/kKUbLfx7j-g
https://youtu.be/Sa4nJAHGvZU
https://youtu.be/Y3GoSXTp3ZA
https://youtu.be/iNkUBf5OefA
It's a sweet film, though the ring part might be contradictory to Kiwami's extended 1st chapter.

[medion_no]

The ring got overlooked indeed. I think this is in netflix asia in good quality.