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Yakuza is getting another live-action adaptation, because the third time has to be the charm

Grant St. Clair
Mar 19, 2026
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Given how much the Yakuza game series borrows from classic yakuza film, to then turn around and make a film adaptation of that feels a little like a disco-suited snake eating its own tail. Not that it’s stopped people from trying, though: Takashi Miike himself made an okay movie out of the first game in 2007, and Amazon made that same game into an absol…

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