The Men Who Became Legends

The first installment in the Yakuza/Like a Dragon franchise, which has shipped over 30 million copies worldwide, has been adapted into a live action work that remains almost faithful to the original. Produced by the cast and staff of the hugely popular franchise Unification of Japan, which depicts the Japanese underworld, the adaptation is fully supervised by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio. The story follows the events leading up to the video game Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties.

Third son Raizo is a good man, but when another organization targets his father and his family business, it awakens his violent side.

Legendary yakuza actors Hakuryu and Hitoshi Ozawa star in this epic series where money, power, and brutality fuel turf wars across the land.

Two rival bounty hunters team up to battle a crime boss

Receiving a request from a marriage broker operating in a run-down area, Hidari (Hideo Nakano) and Yamato (Yasukaze Motomiya) find themselves helping with a fake marriage. Many of this broker's cases involve the Goroza family, who are involved in human trafficking and insurance fraud, manipulating household registries. Amidst this, Yamato's fake bride, Shirayuki, is brutally murdered after having her organs harvested. Angered by this heinous act, Left and Yamato, without any directive from the third-generation leader of the Kurotetsu Alliance, Sakaki (Sho Aikawa), take on a rival gang. Thus begins a bloody purge driven solely by their unbacked "chains."

Released after 4 years in prison, a family captain is shocked by how drastically his organization and private life has changed, and he won't sit by.

Released after 4 years in prison, a family captain is shocked by how drastically his organization and private life has changed, and he won't sit by.

Gambler Munetoshi (Hitomi Matsuda) and pickpocket Ichinojo (Kazuyoshi Ozawa) hit it off and start making a fortune together. When Ichinojo's girlfriend Nami is kidnapped, they have to put their lives on the line.

Tatsunobu Sagara (Kazuyoshi Ozawa), a wakagashira (underboss) of the Natsume-gumi, was expanding his influence by leveraging the reputation of Mitsuru Gono (Shiro), wakagashira of the Tanba-gumi. Meanwhile, Daisuke Kanamori (Hideyuki Kawahara), also of the Tanba-gumi, was aggressively encroaching upon business territories monopolized by the Natsume-gumi. Although Gono and Kanamori were both formidable figures renowned in the yakuza underworld, their mutual animosity had brought the organization to the brink of an internal feud. Tanba-gumi boss Fujio Yamadai (Hakuryu) ordered the organization's number two, Kenzo Ushikubo (Hitoshi Ozawa), to keep a close watch on them; however, even he could not curb the escalating friction between these men, each driven by fierce yakuza ambition... Starring Hakuryu and Hitoshi Ozawa alongside a cast of today's most intense actors, the first chapter of this saga chronicling the history of Japanese yakuza turf wars begins now.

Itoda-gumi was excommunicated from the Mishima-gumi, but the situation changed completely when Ando (Hitoshi Ozawa) was welcomed as a wakagashira. He succeeded in destroying the Mishima-gumi by inviting an internal strife in the Sekishin Houkou Renmei to overthrow him. However, Mishima (Shunya Nagasawa), who sees Ando as dangerous, continues to attack him.

Fourth entry in the 'Conquest' series.

Honda (Koji Matoba), a former Self-Defense Force officer, returns from Iraq emotionally scarred, losing his wife and daughter. He becomes a driver for the yakuza boss Isogaya (Noh Terada) but feels nothing in his hollow life. His emotions are stirred when he meets Kiriko, the wife of a man who committed suicide in Iraq. Kiriko, now Isogaya's mistress, encourages Honda to "live until you die." Motivated by her words, Honda begins a search for his daughter, plunging into the dark world of the yakuza.