Like a Dragon: Prologue

Like a Dragon: Prologue
original DVD box
Directed by	Takeshi Miyasaka, Takashi Miike (executive director)
Produced by	Artport
Written by	Masaru Nakamura (credited as NAKA雅MURA)
Based on	Yakuza by Sega
Starring	Masakatsu Funaki Mikio Ohosawa Ayaka Maeda Hirotaro Honda
Music by	Kentaro Nijima
Distributed by	Sega
Release date	Japan: March 24, 2006 (DVD) Europe/UK: August 15, 2006 (VOD)
Running time	43 min.
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Like a Dragon: Prologue, known in Japanese as Like a Dragon ~ Prologue ~ (龍が如く 〜序章〜, Ryū ga Gotoku ~ Joshō ~^?), is a 2006 Japanese crime drama Original Video directed by Takeshi Miyasaka with Takashi Miike as executive director. It is based upon Toshihiro Nagoshi's 2005 video game Yakuza released on PlayStation 2.

This drama stars puroresu champion Masakatsu Funaki in the title role and is a prequel to the original episode of the Yakuza series which was itself adapted by Takashi Miike as Like a Dragon: Movie Version.

During the 1970s, three children, Kazuma Kiryu, Akira Nishikiyama (a.k.a. Nishiki) and his younger sister, Yuko Nishikiyama, are raised in Shintaro Kazama (a.k.a. Fuma)'s Sunflower Orphanage. In summer 1980, Yumi Sawamura, a young girl whose parents were incidentally shot during a gang's shootout, joins them in the orphanage. Following a yakuza tradition, the honorable Kazama secretly raises orphans whose parents he has directly or indirectly killed. In return, these children look at him as their father and he eventually introduces the teenagers in the Dojima Family, a Tojo Clan affiliate.