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Yakuza: Like a Dragon
JAPAN · 2007

Yakuza: Like a Dragon

Takashi Miike
redemption yakuza crime revenge prison and reintegration violent confrontation
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Synopsis

Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his yakuza past. Unfortunately, Kiryū's problems slowly escalate as he is pursued by a former associate, the baseball-bat-wielding psycho Gorō Majima, who has a grudge to settle with Kiryū.

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