Yakuza Kiwami

Similar to the plot of the original Yakuza, the game centers around yakuza lieutenant Kazuma Kiryu (Takaya Kuroda), who takes the blame up for the murder of his patriarch Sohei Dojima, committed by his sworn brother and best friend Akira Nishikiyama (Kazuhiro Nakaya), spending ten years in prison before being granted parole. A free man, Kiryu discovers that Nishikiyama is now a powerful but cold-hearted yakuza boss, his childhood friend and girlfriend Yumi Sawamura (Maaya Sakamoto) has gone missing, and everyone is searching for ten billion yen that was stolen from his former organization, the Tojo Clan. As war erupts throughout the streets of Kamurocho between many different factions (including government agents and the Triad), Kiryu decides to find Yumi and the missing money, and protect Haruka (Rie Kugimiya), a mysterious young girl whom everyone seems to be after. Eventually, a remorseful Nishikiyama sacrifices himself to kill Haruka's father, Kyohei Jingu (Hiroaki Yoshida), who was a corrupt politician bent on destroying the Tojo and his loved ones, while Yumi died in Kiryu's arms from a gunshot wound. Rather than give in to despair and allow himself to be arrested, Kiryu leaves the Tojo and becomes Haruka's adoptive father.
Kiwami's story introduces flashback sequences in between each chapter, focused on Nishikiyama's descent into madness. The day after Dojima's murder and Kiryu's arrest, the Dojima Family tries to figure out the real culprit while mocking Nishikiyama for his ineptitude. In 1996, the Kazama Family patriarch, Shintaro Kazama (Tetsuya Watari), decides to give Nishikiyama his own "family" to control, with the expectation that he would look out for Kiryu when the latter is released from prison. However, Nishikiyama proves to be an incompetent leader, with his family captain, Matsushige (Hitoshi Ikeda), disrespecting him and commanding more respect among his men. As Yuko, his terminally ill sister, requires a heart transplant, Nishikiyama visits a doctor, who asks him to pay 30 million yen for the operation. Nishikiyama tells Matsushige to get the money by any means, prompting him to shake down stores in the Kazama Family territory. Osamu Kashiwagi (Shunsuke Sakuya), the Kazama Family captain, violently disciplines Nishikiyama, then forgives him but tells him that Kiryu would be morally better as a leader. Nishikiyama later encounters the Shimano Family patriarch, Futoshi Shimano (Naomi Kusumi), who accuses Kazama of deliberately giving Nishikiyama men he cannot control, and advises that Nishikiyama should learn to care for himself instead of Kiryu. Eventually, Nishikiyama learns from Matsushige that the doctor was a fraud who had use the money to pay off his gambling debt. Nishikiyama rushes to confront the doctor, but discovers that he has run away, and Yuko had died from her condition. Nishikiyama prepares to commit seppuku, but is interrupted by Matsushige. Finally fed up with the disrespect and harassment, Nishikiyama stabs Matsushige and confesses to Dojima's murder before using the blood to slick back his hair.