Like a Dragon: Ishin casts Kazuma Kiryu as the legendary samurai Sakamoto Ryoma, but the character was always a samurai, even when he stars in the Yakuza series as a modern gangster.

Dragon Ball Super's co-creator, Toyotarou, publicly reveals the first look at his upcoming new work as the Dragon Ball ...

Like a Dragon: Ishin – go west, young samurai (pic: Sega) GameCentral reviews the samurai-themed Yakuza spin-off that after a 10 year wait has not only got a Western release but a full remake.

Even as a fan of the Yakuza series (rebranded now as Like A Dragon), I didn’t know much about this Ishin spin-off before I sat down to play it. That is mostly because the original Ryū ga Gotoku ...

The PC version of Metroidvania-style side-scrolling action game The Spirit of the Samurai will launch via Steam and Epic Games Store on December 12, publisher Kwalee and developer Digital Mind anno… ...

Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune—best known for starring in films like Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, and Yojimbo for director Akira Kurosawa—has been dead for nearly 30 years.

This 17th-century folding screen allegedly depicts Yasuke, the African warrior who served under the Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga. As one of the few foreigners to rise in samurai ranks, Yasuke’s ...

Hiroyuki Sakamoto on Kiryu, Samurai and Sakamoto Ryōma. We asked Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Chief Producer of Like a Dragon: Ishin! and RGG Studio, if samurai fiction fed into the creation of Kazuma Kiryu.