Yakuza: Best Game Movie Yet?
Posted by Gill Figno. Filed under News. Tagged with Yakuza 2.
Check out the official site and trailer!
Ok, it might just be my taste in movies, (I love stuff like Versus and comic book movies) but this looks great. Most of the shots in the trailer look like they are straight from the game, which is something that most other video game movies fail to do. I’m going to go ahead and say this one isn’t going to suck, which is the first time I’ve ever said that about a Video Game movie.
The film, to be released March, 3rd, is directed by Takeshi Miyasaka. It also stars Japanese Pro Wrestler Masakatsu Funaki, so you know it’s going to be legendary. the acclaimed Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer, Full Metal Yakuza) and stars Kazuki Kitamura (Full Metal Yakuza, Godzilla: Final War) as our hero, Kazuma.
Yakuza is known as Ryu Ga Gotoku in Japan and is created by Toshihiro Nagoshi (Daytona USA, Super Monkey Ball.) Recently a 43-minute Prologue to the movie was released on DVD to promote the game’s sequel, Ryu Ga Gotoku 2. No word yet on release of the prologue, movie or game sequel getting a release outside of Japan. Fans of campy Japanese Cinema can only hope…
[Via IGN]
Sorry for the confusion, Takeshi Miyasaka directed the Prologue DVD, which starred Masakatsu Funaki. Thanks for catching that, Nate.
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Isn’t this being directed by Takashi Miike?
Nathan
Posted January 5th, 2007 at 11:52 pm.
All the info I had said it was Takeshi Miyasaka. I suppose that was for the Prologue and not the full movie. But since you mentioned it, I checked IGN’s page on it and they indeed did say it’s being directed by Takashi Miike. When I checked out the IMDB’s page on him, however, he’s not listed as director and his next movie is Sukiyaki Western Django, so I’m totally confused now…
Warren
Posted January 6th, 2007 at 12:34 am.