Like a Dragon (film)

Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTakashi Miike
Written byMasashi Sogo
Based onYakuza
by Sega
Produced by
  • Tsutomu Tsuchikawa
  • Shigeji Maeda
Starring
CinematographyHideo Yamamoto
Edited byYasushi Shimamura
Music byKoji Endo
Production
companies
  • Sega
  • ArtPort
  • CJ Entertainment
Distributed byToei Company
Release date
  • March 3, 2007 (2007-03-03)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office$5,215,613[1]

Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Japanese: 龍が如く 劇場版, Hepburn: Ryū ga Gotoku: Gekijōban, lit. "Like a Dragon: The Movie"), is a 2007 Japanese crime film directed by Takashi Miike, based on the 2005 PlayStation 2 video game Yakuza. The film stars Kazuki Kitamura, Goro Kishitani, Show Aikawa, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Kenichi Endō and Tomorowo Taguchi.

The English-subtitled version premiered on June 23, 2008, at New York Asian Film Festival,[2] and was released on DVD in Northern America on February 23, 2010, by an affiliate of Media Blasters.

  1. ^ "Like a Dragon". Box Office Mojo. 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  2. ^ "LIKE A DRAGON (Japan, 2007)". Archived from the original on 2010-04-08. Retrieved 2009-10-21.