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Now's your chance to dive head first into the underground world of the Japanese yakuza with both Yakuza 4 and Yakuza 5 playable in PS Now.

Yakuza - 0 is the latest and sixth major installment in the beloved Japanese Yakuza series, but unlike EA's FIFA or NHL games, the story being told is not chronological.

But it's the past six months that's really seen a flurry of activity: The writer's latest «The Outsider,» about a former WW2 prisoner - of - war who rises through the ranks of the Japanese Yakuza, placed fourth in the 2011 Black List, and is set up at Warner Bros with producer John Linson («Sons of Anarchy «-RRB-, who conceived the idea, and his father Art («Fight Club «-RRB- on board.

After making friends with the son of a respected crime boss, Rama is hired as an enforcer for the syndicate, only to find himself smack dab in the middle of a turf war between his boss and the Japanese yakuza.

During his visit, for the first time in his life, Wolverine becomes vulnerable both physically and emotionally; now facing his own mortality he'll have to do battle with Japanese Yakuza, Ninja, as well as his own personal demons.

Jet Li in War pits Chinese Triads against Japanese Yakuza with an FBI agent (Jason Statham) and hired killer (Li) in between.

In an effort to pay off a gambling debt to the Japanese Yakuza, Salmon sets up a contest to «inspire» his waitstaff to sell more food than they ever have before: the top selling server wins $ 10,000 while the waiter in last place gets served with a broken rib sandwich - courtesy of the Champ himself.

Not exact matches

Aside from Yakuza Ishin, it really doesn't have any games that appeal to the Japanese market.

Of the more than 40 films he's directed this century, I've only seen a handful, but Yakuza Apocalypse is firmly in the tradition of earlier films like Sukiyaki Western Django, 13 Assassins and his remake of the Maskai Kobayashi classic Harakiri in their critique of the psychotic masculinity that underlies the ideology of Japanese action narratives.

Yakuza stories within a modern gangster framework are immensely popular in the Japanese cinema, and Paul Schrader, former editor of the American film magazine Cinema, wrote a comprehensive survey of the genre for a Film Comment of about a year ago.

Remarking therein that anyone who'd seen a few examples of this relentlessly formalized genre could write one himself, Schrader spoke from experience: his own The Yakuza, touched up a smidge by Robert Towne and formally permissive enough to incorporate some double - dealing American gangsters along with its Japanese pro- and antagonists, looked a likely enough successor to the kung - fu cycle in popularity that Warner Brothers paid a hefty price for the screenplay ($ 300,000, according to Newsweek).

; MEN AND CHICKEN, Anders Thomas Jensen's dark, twisted and extremely animalistic comedy as black as pitch, but with the sweetest heart, starring Mads Mikkelsen; Fernando León de Aranoa's black comedy A PERFECT DAY, a freewheeling tale centering on two veteran aid workers starring Benico Del Toro and Tim Robbins; the International Premiere of Brendan Cowell's debut RUBEN GUTHRIE about an advertising exec trying to quit the booze, which spikes social observations with dark, wounded humour and the European Premiere of Japanese auteur / icon Takeshi Kitano's latest comedy, RYUZO AND HIS SEVEN HENCHMEN, about a group of elderly, retired Yakuza who reteam to take revenge on a younger rival gang.

Manga Entertainment has announced that cult Japanese director Takashi Miike's vampire - gangster genre mashup Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld is set for a theatrical release here in the UK this January.

His memory of the shoot is strong, and he notes interesting extratextual items, like the cloth midriff bindings that yakuza wear to contain their intestines if they get stabbed, or the fact that many Japanese members of the production were missing pinky fingers.

Photographed in Panavision by Japanese cinematographer Okazaki Kozo — save for the U.S. sequences, shot by Duke Callaghan with a distinctly second - unit feel — The Yakuza is a collage of teak reds, bamboo golds, some unfortunate Wonka purples, and lots of plaid slacks.

This one stars Japanese genre - movie mainstay Shô Aikawa as a cop whose family was killed by the yakuza.

The yakuza movie used to bestride the Japanese film industry like a colossus, but now clings to its margins.

The Levi jacket worn by Ken Takakura as Ken Tanaka in Japan set thriller The Yakuza (1974, costume design by Dorothy Jeakins) is not Japanese denim.

2017 has seen a renaissance in Japanese gaming, with notable games like Yakuza Zero, Yakuza Kiwami, Nioh, Nier Automata, Persona 5, Danganronpa 1 +2 HD not releasing on Xbox but instead on PlayStation.

As the first Yakuza release to find its ways to Western shores, SEGA took the misguided approach to marketing the game as a sort of Japanese Grand Theft Auto.

Persona 5, Yakuza Kiwami, Yakuza Zero, NiOh, Nier: Automata, Danganronpa HD, Kingdom Hearts 2.8 and the 1.5 +2.5 HD Collections, Dragon Quest XI (in Japan) and others released on Sony's console, sparking a Japanese gaming renaissance of sorts.

It is finally coming back to the U.S. and with Yakuza Kiwami (a remake of the first game) coming to PS4 this summer there is no better time to dive into this stellar Japanese crime drama.

A yakuza of Chinese descent and a Japanese cop each wage their own war against the Japanese mafia.

Foreign affairs: Takashi Miike's Yakuza Apocalypse (Japan, 2015, R, with subtitles) pits Japanese gangsters against vampires in a wild, weird action blast with surreal humor.

The Yakuza Sydney Pollack, USA, 1974, 35 mm, 112m East meets West in the form of two iconic stars: Japanese gangster film star Ken Takakura teams with Mitchum in a thriller set in Tokyo's treacherous criminal underworld.

Known as Yakuza: Of the End in Japan, Dead Souls won't be a straight port of its Japanese counterpart.

I also desperately want Dragon Quest VII (which was released for PS1 in America, but never in europe... grrr...) JoJo's bizarre adventure (the first one was wonderfully bizarre) and Yakuza 5 for PS3 (I can't believe we're seemingly not getting it... stupid Sega — I want to beat up Japanese gangsters with a bicycle and pay too much money to talk with overly frugal women!)

«From cult Japanese director Takashi Miike, Yakuza Apocalypse is a martial arts extravaganza and vampire action film.

Yakuza: Of the End did less business with a larger PS3 install base, either telling us that Japanese gamers are experiencing annual Yakuza fatigue or they just don't like the introduction of undead in their gangster brawler - dramas.

2017 has proven to be a hit for Japanese developed games with releases like Yakuza 0, NieR: Automata, NiOh, Resident Evil 7 and now Persona 5...

«A former European spy, accepts a confidential mission from a Japanese businessman exiled to France to take down the head of the most treacherous Yakuza boss in Japan.

Going into Yakuza: Black Panther, I was expecting a run - of - the - mill Japanese drama.

The love - com aspect of the series is all right, but I really hate «funny yakuza»; I assume that violent - dumb - and - lovable tattooed yakuza goons are the Japanese comedy equivalent of Jersey Shore stereotypes or Southern rednecks.

«Since Atlus U.S.A. — renowned for the award - winning Shin Megami Tensei, Persona, and Etrian Odyssey franchises — integrated with SEGA of America, the ATLUS expertise has allowed SEGA to localize and publish popular Japanese titles in the west, including the Yakuza series, Project DIVA series, and more,»

Kazuma Kiryu, the Dragon of Dojima, will take on the Japanese underworld for the last time in Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, which is now available to download for the PS4.

Yet barely a year after Platinum Games» Vanquish, SEGA are once again backing a Japanese development team to do something new with the genre, this time in the guise of Yakuza Studio's Binary Domain.

Plot aside, Yakuza Kiwami is an easy to grasp action beat - em - up placed in a modern Japanese style sandbox environment.

This is Ebb & Flow, a 40 - minute documentary about the resurgence of Japanese video games that features interviews with people like Katsura Hashino (Persona), Yoko Taro (Nier) and Toshihiro Nagoshi (Yakuza).

Some people like to think of the Yakuza games as the Japanese GTA, but they're not.

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It's got a tattoo design and the Japanese website for Yakuza 4 on one side, and the Japanese logo for the game on the other.

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Yakuza 5 will be released digitally for PS3 and include all the DLC that was released during its original Japanese campaign.

Yakuza 5 is set for a Japanese release on December 6th 2012.

Also confirmed for the Western release of Yakuza 5 is all the Japanese DLC, included with a purchase of the game as standard.

Awesome, although I was kinda hoping we would get a shot glass like the Japanese special edition did, Here's hoping that Kiwami isnt far behind (hell im kinda surprised it wasnt released alongside 0 seeing as Kiwami is almost a word for word remake, minus the extra Nishki scenes, and new side quest) Gon na be a good start to 2017, with Yakuza 6 and 0 (been importing the series since 5 took forever to come westward)

(P.S. — Dear readers, if you like Japanese culture, action combat, and a dose of RPG mixed in, do yourself a favor and go check out Yakuza 3 or 4 for your PS3.

Though there are no current plans for release in the states, you can still enjoy the demo for Yakuza 3, which makes its Japanese PS3 debut tonight.

Yakuza: Dead Souls is slightly awkward to play, is steeped in Japanese culture, has a likable sense of humour and is stuffed with content, so in spite of the zombies, disappointing lack of variation and bold new direction, it's still very much a Yakuza game, and even with its problems that's very much a thing that is worth celebrating.