| Director | Takashi Miike |
|---|---|
| Box office | $5.2 million |
's Kabukicho district which itself served as a basis for the background design of the game's Kamurocho area.]] , a main landmark in both the games and the movie version]] On a hot summer night in Kamurocho, a manzai duo of amateur masked gunmen lay siege to a bank, while 10 billion yen belonging to the Tojo Clan, a powerful yakuza syndicate, disappear. Meanwhile, in the streets of Kamurocho, former yakuza Kazuma Kiryu and his adopted daughter, a young girl called Haruka Sawamura, search for Mizuki Sawamura, the latter's mother and the sister of Kiryu's childhood love, with Kiryu's old rival, the psychotic yakuza Goro Majima, and his men following them.
Kiryu is attacked by members of the Nishikiyama family in a convenience store called Sancho, where Poppo employee Satoru and his new girlfriend Yui take advantage of the confusion to empty the cash register, and decide to start holding up stores for money and for fun.
Elsewhere in the district, a mysterious Korean hitman, Park, tracks down the culprit behind the Tojo Clan heist, which leads him towards the infamous Jingu, a figure also known as Mister N, and the Kamurocho landmark, the Millennium Tower.
The search for Mizuki brings Kiryu to the top of Millennium Tower and ends with a climactic battle against yakuza Akira Nishikiyama, Kiryu's childhood best friend and former blood brother, who declares his intention to beat Kiryu and finally prove he is the better man and after an intense fight, Mizuki detonates the entire tower in an attempt to kill Jingu and scattering the Tojo clan's entire funds across Kabukicho before telling Kiryu to take Haruka and run. All plots resolve in the climactic finish, including Mizuki sacrificing herself and Majima escaping to live another day while Satoru carries a mortally wounded Yui across the streets after a scuffle with another Yakuza clan. Park bids farewell to his sponsors after successfully assassinating Mister N and departs for Korea, while the masked gun men are finally arrested. Amidst the rubble of the Millennium Tower, Haruka, realizing she has no other family left, holds Kiryu's hand and asks to be adopted.