Yamegoku: Yakuza Yamete Itadakimasu (ヤメゴク〜ヤクザやめて頂きます〜) is a
Japanese television drama series that premiered on
TBS on 16 April 2015.[1][2] This is
Yuko Oshima's first time starring in the lead role of a serial drama.[2] It received an average viewership rating of 6.5%.[3]
Cast
Yuko Oshima as Bakushū Nagamitsu, a detective (Leading role)
Kazuki Kitamura and
Kenichi Endō have already performed together in 2014 in The Raid 2, as well as Yakuzas: Kenichi Endō as Hideaki Goto, head of Goto Family, a powerful yakuza family from
Japan and one of two mob bosses that control
Jakarta and Kazuki Kitamura as Ryuichi, the main Goto lieutenant and
interpreter.
Yuko Oshima, the protagonist of this drama, is a former member from
AKB48, one of the biggest groups of
J-pop and
Japan.
Before Isao Tachibana, Kenichi Endō had already been portrayed/interpreted two notorious fictional yakuza bosses in previous films: Joji Yazaki in Crows Zero and Crows Zero 2 and Hideaki Goto in The Raid 2: Berandal. In the first two films, he is the main antagonist, and in The Raid 2 he is a kind of anti-hero / anti-villain.
It is possible that Senichi Mizuta, one of the bosses of the Yakuza and one of characters of this series is
Zainichi Korean, mainly because he is interpreted by a Korean Zainichi, Kim Sung-Rak. With that it is quite possible that he was inspired by
Machii Hisayuki, "The
Ginza Tiger" and founder of
Toa-kai or
Tokutaro Takayama, one of bosses of
Aizukotetsu-kai.
References
^木曜ドラマ劇場『ヤメゴク~ヤクザやめて頂きます~』 (in Japanese). Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. Retrieved 29 March 2015.