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Amazon's Like a Dragon: Yakuza TV show cast reveal that they have never played the games: "we wanted to do our own version"
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proandrad
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Red flag, this is an excuse people give when they don’t want to put in the effort to research their role. This isn’t your own thing, it’s a series based on an established franchise. You don’t have to play the video game, but you should be highly familiar with the series. Just watch a let’s play. Why do people like this even get hired?
why even buy the rights then?????????????????????????????????????????????????
Dr. Samuel Hayden
Member
Hollywood seems determined to kill off video game adaptions before they can replace superheroes.
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EverydayBeast
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Haven’t played Yakuza? These people don’t know what they’re doing, in the shadows you have to play yakuza 0-3 at least.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
I appreciate this approach more versus the Witcher TV series approach where they actively did not give a shit about tying it in with the source material at all.
Cuz that show is a fcking train wreck.
Cuz that show is a fcking train wreck.
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rubik's dude
Member
What a coincidence, I'm never gonna watch the show because I'd rather play a version of Yakuza that has nothing to do with theirs.
CityHunter1981
An Absolute Desaster
I don’t understand why even make a tv series based on a game, if you want it to differ so much from the original. Just make an original story using original characters instead.
Just imagine what trainwreck we would have gotten if the Last of Us cast and crew wanted to ma their own version…
Just imagine what trainwreck we would have gotten if the Last of Us cast and crew wanted to ma their own version…
Lunarorbit
Gold Member
2 scenes? I've only played the 1st yakuza and even i know he's a huge part of the series.
This is very troubling
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
I'm genuinely curious how these guys land these jobs! How would these interviews usually go?
"Hey, I want to be a part of / make the new Yakuza series!"
"Have you played the games?"
"What games? There are games?!"
"Congrats, you're hired!"
"Hey, I want to be a part of / make the new Yakuza series!"
"Have you played the games?"
"What games? There are games?!"
"Congrats, you're hired!"
Angry_Megalodon
Member
The idea is to destroy the original, so it checks out.
I can't understand people acting surprised about this in 2024, when it's the SAME FUCKING THING with every show.
I can't understand people acting surprised about this in 2024, when it's the SAME FUCKING THING with every show.
Sharius
Member
no talent to make their own origin series so they has to hijack other series hope fan will follow them, in same tim,e look down on it because they think their version is more suprior than a mere kid video game
xenosys
Member
When people can't even be bothered to look at the source material, and at least draw some inspiration from it, I immediately disregard.
You may as well stop leeching off a famous IP at that point and just make your own thing. It's like making a James Bond movie where Bond's a raging feminist having never watched an old Bond movie before.
You may as well stop leeching off a famous IP at that point and just make your own thing. It's like making a James Bond movie where Bond's a raging feminist having never watched an old Bond movie before.
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deriks
4-Time GIF/Meme God
Remembering more is actually three: a very quick scene when they just joined the family and Majima still has two eyes, a fight in the middle of the city, and in the final episode.
It doesn't do justice
...actually this pretty much says for this show to the game
- Haruka is not a major plot character
- they invented a new masked character called the "demon", which is very unnecessary and of course it is just no secret who really is
- there's close to none emphases on the fighting. They adapted the cage fight, and was kinda nice, but where are the heat moments? There's not a single one. NADA
- The city? Maybe was a money thing, but Kamurocho is basically a character in the games, and in the show is just there...
- The characters or their tattoos? No dramatic introduction to a important person. And only Kiryu has a emphasis on his tattoo, but for some reason is also changed his motivation to choose it. They put more weight on this, but falls flat in the end, and I mean you ask yourself "really?!" with a huge disappointment
- This is a poorly casting as the Borderlands movie got. I can see the Florist, Yumi, Nishiki and Majima as good options, but even Kiryu looks more if was at Yakuza 0 instead 1. Shimano, Dojima, Kazama, Date... Just wrong choices. Shibusawa takes the cake because not only he looks different, but his character is completely changed
Bonus kinda bad thing: I watched with the original japanese voice and brazilian portuguese subs, but for some reason Dojima is written "Doujima". I mean, it sounds like it, but it's a name thing and not a phonetic thing, so I wonder if other languages got wrong this or other stuff too
Kokoloko85
Member
Just like the Witcher people wanted to do there own thing and LOTR wanted to do there own thing.
If you want to do your own thing, go make something else, not a franchise people expect you to stay true to
If you want to do your own thing, go make something else, not a franchise people expect you to stay true to
Dazraell
Member
Bruh, what they did with Shibusawa is something else. That scene where he and Kiryu are doing breaking and entering and he justs takes two cans of beer on a desk and starts drinking was so fucking dumb. Such a wasted character
I was watching the show with Polish subs and there was the same spelling error
Closer
Member
Ain't that because it is written as 堂島（どうじま) (got from Wikipedia), ど(do)う(u)じ(ji)ま(ma)?
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Dazraell
Member
No idea man. Probably. Games I've played so far used "Dojima" in subtitles, hence why I noticed it
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SkylineRKR
Member
If you disconnect it from the games I actually found it enjoyable after a bit of a rocky 1st episode. Its dark and violent at times, just a decent Japanese action gangster series.
I just accepted it has nothing to do with the games, except for Kamurocho and some character names. Some things are loosely based on it, like 1995 being pre-millenium tower and the mob fighting over its ground and 2005 being present day.
I just accepted it has nothing to do with the games, except for Kamurocho and some character names. Some things are loosely based on it, like 1995 being pre-millenium tower and the mob fighting over its ground and 2005 being present day.
deriks
4-Time GIF/Meme God
Closer
Member
Maybe because that's how it sounds like. Figures.
YeulEmeralda
Linux User
Yakuza movies have been around since what the 1950s? If memory serves it's a whole genre in Japan.
NanaMiku
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Disco Dave
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DownLikeBCPowder
Member
lol, "our own version" of something we aren't familiar with. Sounds like a promising place to start.
Blank Space Invader
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Principal
Member
?????
What do you mean?
Mibu no ookami
Demoted Member® Pro™
Gamers can be such babies. They taken everything as a personal slight against them. Actors don't need to read books or play video games to do a tv show or movie, nor does reading the books or playing the games somehow ensure a quality adaptation. They take direction from the director/showrunners/writers.
Not everyone is a gamer and being a gamer isn't a requisite for being a quality director/showrunner/writer, let alone actors.
Not everyone is a gamer and being a gamer isn't a requisite for being a quality director/showrunner/writer, let alone actors.
Breakfast at Noon
Member
Then why pay for the rights to use the franchise? why not just make something new called Yakuza? it's not like anyone owns the right to use the gang name.
Same as Halo, why pay all that money to make something nothing like it? just write your own shit.
Same as Halo, why pay all that money to make something nothing like it? just write your own shit.
DeltaPolarBear
Member
Another "Dragonball Evolution".
I don't even know how these people get funding. Clearly the original fans would get offended and would never touch it. It is the classic "America is going to improve the inferior product from foreign nations" mentality. Been like that for decades.
I don't even know how these people get funding. Clearly the original fans would get offended and would never touch it. It is the classic "America is going to improve the inferior product from foreign nations" mentality. Been like that for decades.
xrnzaaas
Member
Only the most hardcore fans would expect the show to feel EXACTLY like games and obviously that could alienate some people with typical weird Yakuza content, BUT you can take SOME things and include them in the show. A single karaoke scene would have fans go wild and become very positive towards the show. Instead people like me who love the games don't see a reason to bother with the show, especially with the story changes no one asked for.
Mibu no ookami
Demoted Member® Pro™
I'm not referring to just this project and who knows maybe there would have been a karaoke scene in a second season. Pretending like everyone on the project has to be a hardcore fan of the source material is silly. I can assure you that some people involved were familiar with the franchise. I can also assure you that making a game into a movie or tv show is difficult and packing everything from the game into the new source material is also difficult.
Mibu no ookami
Demoted Member® Pro™
You know this was a Japanese production right? You sound so ignorant.
poodaddy
Member
What the fuck with this bump? You just woke up and decided to stir shit up.
I almost respect your chaotic nature.