Yakuza: Like A Dragon (2007) | First Time Watching | Reaction | AGirlAndAReaction

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

This was a long time coming, I hope you guys enjoy this one because this movie is A LOT 😂

[@moniquegreen9567]

Girl you had looking for this. I just had found whole movie here on KZbin it was A LOT😂😂 . The guy playing Kiryu is FINE🥵.

[@yukikun6478]

There is a movie called Like a Dragon Prologue which covered childhood days of Kiryu and Nishiki up until before Kiryu went out of the 10 year imprisonment in 2005. It's also somewhere in KZbin. I will look forward for your reaction video for that. Lol. Though that one is less cringe than this. Hehe. No Yakuza 0 events unfortunately since it was made 2007 as a promotion also for Yakuza 1 since it has a trailer of the game at the end of the movie.

[@castawayarmy32]

how can i watch the full movie melovely 🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭❤❤ I'm so dead

[@yukikun6478]

@@castawayarmy32 it's in youtube. In 1440p.

[@MugdhaMahdiShams]

Fun fact, the actor for Majima here is named Goro Kishitani. Aside from his first name being the same as Majima's, if you recall the character Nishitani from Yakuza 0 (The crazy guy with thr knife that Majima fought in Cabaret Grand) was somewhat based off of Kishitani's version of Majima here. In fact, the file names for Nishitani's character models in the game are even named Kishitani instead of Nishitani. This implies that his name was going to be a direct reference to the actor himself before they changed it for some reason.

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

That's pretty cool!

[@gianncmedina7805]

So Majima inspired Majima to become Majima 🤯

[@broski7792]

Goro Kishitani is also blind in his right eye. That's why he wears the eyepatch on his right, instead of his left eye like in the games.

[@Hartior]

Two things about this movie -If you compare the original Majima and movie Majima you can see that he wears the patch in the wrong eye, the reason is because the actor couldn't see well from that eye because of an accident so they change it -The actor who made Jingu in this movie is none other than Toshihiro Nagoshi, the creator of the Yakuza series

[@marleonka.]

Fun fact: One of the baklava robbers is played by Kenichi Endo. Out of all the people involved in the movie, he would be the only one to reappear in the franchise as Junji Sugiuchi (Tanimura's evil mentor) in Yakuza 4. Funny that he started off in this movie as a comic relief character

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

That's awesome!

[@Ticketman99]

One of the cops(the leader of the robbery investigation)is played by the VA of Takasugi(from Y5).

[@UltrawaveProductions]

@@Ticketman99 And by extension his model.

[@MarzGurl]

You gotta remember, since this movie came out in 2007, it was much closer to what Yakuza 1 portrayed on the PS2. So the bulk of Nishiki's backstory didn't come out until both Yakuza 0 and the additional backstory added to Yakuza Kiwami much later. So even the PS2 version of Yakuza had a pretty weak telling of the relationship between Nishiki and Kiryu. Doesn't really make the movie a lot better of course, haha, but it does kinda explain why suddenly Nishiki just sorta pops up with extremely little explanation, because the games hadn't told that story about him yet, either.

[@MariusBoss11458]

Here's something that not many people know about. There's a second Yakuza Movie that was released in 2006. Honestly, I wish more people acknowledged it. It's like 40 minutes long and it shows the backstory. Just wanted to say this. I wish that they used that Movie for lots of stuff.

[@General_D1]

@@MariusBoss11458really what’s it called? Never knew anything about it?

[@MariusBoss11458]

@@General_D1 Like a Dragon Prologue.

[@General_D1]

@@MariusBoss11458 thank you

[@pixlv6384]

Nishikiyama's actor looks so detached from reality

[@Trane141Kingz]

Homie looks 500% fucking EMO 👋😂👋

[@lizdevilz7271]

Bro look like “Man, I could use some warm bed rn…”

[@DithyrambianHymn]

HE LOOKS LIKE A WET CAT 😭😭😭😭

[@NintendoJoe64]

He looks like he was the one who spent 10 years in the joint

[@rdpruett88]

This felt like watching an 80s action movie which was awesome. So much craziness

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

Omg yeah 😂

[@ThePyroMan_]

9:55 the shotgun fight scene is funny with zero context. They trying to shot each other but on Kiryu and Majima shotgun, they realized there's no shotgun shells anymore or it's jammed and they said "fuck this, let's go by the fist"

[@panyaw1]

it's plot armor bruh. they are both cancelling out.

[@skullfacegaro2716]

The guy at the bar during the shot gun fight you say looks evil is actually a famous bar tender in Japan and is known as the best bar tender in the country. I was very surprised seeing a cameo from him

[@ogPunkcln]

OMG NO WAY IT'S 10 YEARS IN THE JOINT That got me ROFL

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

😂😂

[@Nhileishere]

The campiness of the movie genuinely makes me happy

[@lioncat84]

Wow, I'm REALLY GOOD at randomly spotting Gong Yoo. You showed him very briefly at 6:03 and I was like "Huh, looks like the dad in Train to Busan and the Recruiter in Squid Game. I'm sure it's not, but let's go see the ol' IMDB. Aaaaaand, holy shit, it IS!"

[@ryubeno14]

Fun fact: Majima's actor couldn't see well with his left eye with the eye patch on his right, so they had to switch it and that's why the scene looks as if he's looking through his eye patch 10:08

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

That scene kills me though lol

[@ryubeno14]

@@AGirlAndAReaction I agree lol

[@monkeygamingify]

@@AGirlAndAReaction goro kishitani killed it as majima.

[@aaronwoodruff5307]

When it comes to video game movie standards, especially for the time, this is honestly really good.

[@GBCrush]

Wife and I just took a break to watch this movie this morning (for the first time) and had near the same reaction. I just couldn't get the "so bad its good" fan service out of my blood stream so I went looking for reaction videos and your laughing on this is just the icing on the cake! Hahah, thank you!

[@YovaRodz]

This Yakuza movie was good. Yakzua deserves more films & tv series. Hey Jess! Awesome gameplay! ✌❤

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

There is a new one that SEGA is working on! Just excited to see how they'll handle it this time around

[@ryzacobalion3622]

Believe it or not, but they do have a TV show but it's based on the Kurohyou games. Unfortunately there's no official translation for it

[@MugdhaMahdiShams]

Finished the video. Another thing I'd like to mention, the guy portraying Jingu in this movie? That's Toshihiro Nagoshi, the creator of the Yakuza series. Man really decided to play Jingu in the movie and then had himself get shot dead anticlimactically with less than 5 minutes of screentime in total 😆

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

Honestly the funniest thing, he didn't even get to land the heli and get out 😂

[@Spiralpaladin]

Majima's actor in this deserves a Grammy award. He nailed the character to a T. Also, is it just me, or does Nishki looks almost like a Japanese Tommy Wiseau?

[@UberNoodle]

I saw this movie when it came out on DVD in Japan. I got some very dodgy fan subs so I could watch it. It's such a fever dream sometimes. It's basically Takashi Miike having maximum fun making a movie while not really caring whether it would appeal to anybody other than himself and diehard Yakuza fans. Hah.

[@GamingAfterBed]

We just watched this last night and also found it hilarious but omg your reaction had me in bits again, fab editing!

[@kashkat90s44]

You deserve waaay more subscribers than you have! You're very entertaining! And I love your Yakuza content!

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

Aww thanks! 🥰

[@21stCenturyNabokov]

The director of the live action film is actually a very critically acclaimed director for making surrealist/disturbing/gory black comedy films.He is also well known for...shitty live action films for games like Ace Attorney and Jojo.Quentin Tarantino and Park Chan Wook are a few famous directors that are fans of his movies.The actor who played Kaoru's father and Awano also appeared in his films

[@Andrew_S1]

So he is the Japanese Uwe Boll.

[@21stCenturyNabokov]

​@@Andrew_S1 Sometimes he is the Japanese David Lynch other times he is the Japanese Uwe Boll

[@wansimon2266]

Except for the fact that Ace Attorney is not a shitty movie and Jojo film is not that bad.

[@ryzacobalion3622]

For those of you wondering, the couple throughout the movie are suppose to be Akimoto and Mizuki. Yeah, the same Akimoto and Mizuki From Yakuza 2, 3 and Ishin. Seems like no matter what game, time period or even in a separate universe (aka the movie) they always get into trouble no matter what.

[@plutovolkov8894]

The actor for Kiryu in this went on in a show to play a grumpy samurai who gets emotionally attached to a cat, and his voice got deeper and now he sounds like Kiryu. It’s pretty funny it’s called Samurai cat, I believe it was also adapted into a movie, but the show is better IMO

[@NotTheAlbinauricWoman]

9:50 Rubber bullet plot *for faith intensifies*

[@Trane141Kingz]

Exactly. When you're playing as kiryu, and you shoot someone... They're only dead in the fight. Not to mention the fact that they do actually bleed. But outside of the fight, either they're fine and are just defeated or are just, like HEAVILY defeated - therefore they also look so knocked TF out, and then they just despawn.

[@UberNoodle]

Good point about it not explaining much, but movie and anime adaptations in Japan are often seen kinda supplementary to the source material. Adaptations in Hollywood try to kinda replace the source material, so they try to explain everything and often struggle and do a bad job condensing everything. But it's pretty common for Japanese adaptations to to just throw you in the deep end and assume that you are a super fan of everything else about the series. :D

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

Ahhhh I see that makes sense.

[@blownupmicrowave]

also wasn't this released in 2007? That would mean that only Y1 and Y2 were released and by that point Nishiki was essential just this bad guy who supposedly had some relations to Kiryu which would only be detailed when Y0 released 7 years later

[@nilesstark]

I've been waiting for THIS!

[@nicholasdh_63]

This live action has the substory feels to it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@elijahs4785]

they stopped shooting at haruka like when kids playing in the street see a car coming

[@Trane141Kingz]

Hey - at least majima cares! 😂

[@mamekoro1]

1:57 Takasugi. (Yakuza5 Loan Shark at Shinada part )

[@jermainemartinez8282]

I personally enjoyed it, we all know that Haruka is a bad ass, it shows in the games that she isnt afraid of anything, but her threatening Majima that was intense. Majima and Kiryu-Chans character they were awesome, Majima definitely had the manorisim, to the movie. Kiryu is Kiryu-Chan, he is the man. I was shocked when i found out the Korean guy was in the horror movie Train To Busan and one of the characters in Squid Games.

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

This movie was so chaotic but honestly it seems so on brand anyway lol

[@jermainemartinez8282]

​​@@AGirlAndAReaction I agree with you 💯% it definitely is chaotic. I'm so so happy that you reacted to this movie 😊

[@jgmshadowgames]

5:44 That's Gong Yoo from Train to Busan and Squid Game

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

Oh my god it is!

[@Square1986]

I really enjoyed this movie reaction. It was amazing! 👍

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

Glad you did! ^^

[@ismailabi5988]

BETTER THAN new "prime video shit"

[@joecipoletti4764]

Thanks to this movie, I now know what a double header is

[@wolfzey1846]

I know it's late but hope she watches the prequel movie when characters were in the orphanage

[@rickythemaddragonxiong8757]

Jingu's actor is none other than Toshihiro Nagoshi the series creator & he doesn't have any lines. He also cameoed in other live action RGG media.

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

Omfg is it?! I didn't even recognize him lmaooooo that's amazing

[@VIPPyroTM]

I wasn’t expecting you to react to this hahaha! Any plans on uploading the full cut of you reacting to the movie?

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

I'll see since I'm not posting my reactions on Patreon anymore. It's on KZbin Memberships so I feel like it'll be a little trickier because of the copyright

[@t-money95]

I remember looking for this game and ended up with this movie...best random search ever❤

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

Honestly this movie was fun lol so you lucked out

[@sweetcherries2238]

Is there a full version available?

[@DomoSama13]

So the the couple in the movie, I think it's the Flourist's son and his girl who was the daughter of that other Yakuza family.

[@aronsurakh1747]

this would make sense actually

[@Trane141Kingz]

​@@aronsurakh1747I Can genuinely see that. Now I feel that that's them, just from kiwami 1. That's officially canon.

[@callum4real329]

Jingo was the village of yakuza 1 jingwon is the Korean mafia

[@LennoxParsec]

This was one of the Like a Dragon movies of all times.

[@beanzaru]

Now u gotta watch the Yakuza live stage play

[@jaythedstyr]

They put heat actions in the movie!😂😂😂😂I'm finished!😂😂😂😂

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

In way I appreciate it but on the other it's so random 😂

[@Safersephiroth777]

Hey this movie seems fun actually! Also this came out when only one game has come out I believe so yeah. Also they even use Heat Moves and Healing Items! I mean come on!

[@stayfreshstef270]

This was hilarious, they missed out most of the plot. Thanks for the reaction, this was a treat 😂😂😂

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

It was so random but I'm glad I watched it 😂

[@Djclarkeproductions]

More Yakuza content as always, and I’m here for it. 😌

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

❤

[@SushidozanLIVE]

FINALLY YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES ♥

[@ianimatestuff-z5q]

This movie was soo funny 😆

[@TheDantedarkdemon201]

There’s also a live action stage play

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

Yes! I think only part of it has English subs though :(

[@TheDantedarkdemon201]

@@AGirlAndAReaction yea I’ve seen it without the English subs but it was still fun to watch

[@monkeygamingify]

@@AGirlAndAReaction there is two parts translated to English, it’s just they are on two separate channels, still done by the same guy, although the second part they supervised with the subtitles, whilst the guy who uploaded part 2 did the subtitles.

[@davidebononi8121]

Some SEGA representatives said that due to the success of Sonic they want to make more movies based on SEGA's IP I hope they do something about Yakuza.

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

Yes! They did mention awhile back they were doing a live action of Yakuza again. So I hope it'll turn out great :)

[@supersaiyansnack201]

I loved it

[@livenishikireaction]

im the main character of the movie.

[@Trane141Kingz]

Nah, you were looking out of pocket though nishiki - your face was like, *whatever, let's... Just,fuckin... Go,man... I don't care...* Like, that was YOU 😂

[@I_love_bread_and_Hungry_Jacks]

Reverse eye patch Majima is best Majima

[@moustafaabousalem1411]

Majimaaaaaa

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

The best ♥

[@744Dragon]

My sides hurt but wow I need a laugh.

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

It's so funny for no reason lol

[@troylandzerep8045]

if you thinks thats wild try checking the Yakuza Theater one good luck :P

[@mm-bs3dk]

MOVIE⇒45 Majima⇒100000000000000

[@BonelessBacon]

Nishiki Real

[@TygerClawGaming]

Wow! lol. That was either the worst thing I've ever seen or one of the best. Like it felt like they tried cramming all 7 games into 1 movie which is bad...and Nishkiyama...yikes lol

[@AGirlAndAReaction]

His wig line killed me 😂😂

[@marleonka.]

He kinda looks like Nick Cage ngl

[@DragonVII]

😂😂

[@duongnhdn]

If you think Kiryu's actor here is good, girl you have to watch the stage play, that has an even more interesting casting choice.