Yakuza Kiwami is an action-adventure game with role-playing elements set in an open world environment and played from a third-person perspective.[8] Yakuza lieutenant Kazuma Kiryu (Takaya Kuroda), takes the blam 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….