Like a Dragon: Yakuza English actors Aleks Le, Johnny Yong Bosch

Amazon Prime’s live-action adaptation of Yakuza, Like a Dragon: Yakuzapremiered, and the English cast for the show is in the credits. Starring Aleks Le as Kazuma and Johnny Yong Bosch as Nishiki.

Here is the full English cast for the main characters of Like a Dragon: Yakuzafor them to appear in the credits:

• Kazuma: Aleks Le (Makoto, Pharos and Ryoji in Persona 3 Reload)
• Nishiki: Johnny Yong Bosch (Broly in Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero)
• Yumi: Xanthe Huynh (Marianne in Fire Emblem: Three Houses)
• Miho: Dawn Anderson (Borealus in Starfield)
• Kazuma: Paul Nakauchi (Hanzo in Overwatch)
• Date: Nick Martineau (Kim “Horangi” Hong-jin in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II)
• Dojima: Kaiji Tang (Satoru Gojo in Jujutsu Kaisen)

Some of these talents have previously appeared in Yakuza or Like a Dragon series. Bosch was inside Yakuza: Like a dragon as the young version of Masumi Arakawa, as well as several minor characters such as Lau Ka Long. In the same game, Kaiji Tang voiced the protagonist Ichiban Kasuga. Xanthe Huynh was Haruka Sawamura in both Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Cleared His Name and Like a Dragon: Infinite wealth.

Like a Dragon: Yakuza is the live-action adaptation of the first game in the series. The stars of the show Ryoma Takeuchi as Kiryu and Kento Kaku as NIshiki. It follows yakuza member Kazuma Kiryu, who is serving ten years in prison after falling for his childhood friend Nishiki. After serving his sentence, Kiryu returns to the city of Kamurocho and finds himself embroiled in a conspiracy that threatens to tip the balance in the criminal underworld.

Like a Dragon: Yakuza is available on Amazon Prime and the second half of the show will be broadcast from November 1, 2024.