History Characters / Yakuza3

* GutturalGrowler: Usually speaks in a pretty harsh, sometimes raspy manner.

* EvilSoundsDeep: With Creator/UnshoIshizuka, this is a given.

* GutturalGrowler: Only when he shouts and screams. It even helps that he is voiced by [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Heihachi Mishima's]] second voice actor, Creator/UnshoIshizuka.

* GutturalGrowler: Speaks in a rather rough tone.

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Shunzo Miyasaka

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Yumi Sudo

A man who carries an uncanny resemblance to the late Shintaro Kazama. He's later revealed to be an agent of the CIA who seeks to ensure the Okinawa resort deal goes through by any means necessary. [[spoiler: He is the younger brother of Shintaro Kazama]].

* BackupTwin: [[spoiler:Downplayed. He bears a strong resemblance to his older brother Shintaro Kazama, to the extent of sharing the same voice actor and they're both implied to be TheAce in their respective fields. However unlike Shintaro Kazama's attempts to defy the orders of the ruthless Dojima Family, Joji proves to be more dedicated to following the CIA's ruthless orders to the point where Kiryu has to beat him down to make him reconsider his actions. In any case, the most obvious motivation behind his inclusion in the game is to give Kazama a chance to shine in gameplay as a BossFight against Kiryu, even if it's not the Kazama that we've become acquainted with in earlier games. Once his role in the plot is over, he never appears in the series again.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:After switching to Kiryu's side he shoots Tamashiro in the head before he can try to do the same to Kiryu whose guard was down at the moment. Unfortunately, he sorrowfully notes that he was too late to save Rikiya who had already been shot through the chest and is bleeding out.]]
* BilingualBonus: [[spoiler:Thanks to him being fluent in English due to becoming a CIA agent. Compares Kiryu's eyes to his brother's eyes when he meets him for the first time, heavily implying that his brother is Shintaro Kazama, Kiryu's adoptive father whom Joji heavily resembles. However since he said it in English, Kiryu doesn't understand at all though and frankly the player might not've either if they were Japanese and playing without subtitles.]]

* DubNameChange: Changed to Joji [[spoiler: Fuma to keep it consistent with his brother from [[VideoGame/Yakuza1 the first game]].]] Averted in the remastered release.

* OnlyFriend: [[spoiler:To Tamiya. They met back when they were Japanese cops working up the ranks. Even now they're working together to expose and take down Black Monday.]]

* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Turns out he's not actually the one who shot Daigo and Nakahara.]]
* SharedFamilyQuirks: [[spoiler:Gun-slinging and overall badassery must be common in Kazama's family.]]

* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler:To the CIA. When it was discovered that his older brother was the infamous Shintaro Kazama, high-ranking Tojo Clansman and hitman with hundreds of confirmed kills under his belt, Joji was forced to resign from the police from such a scandal since it was a more conservative time period in Japan. He was left in a dark place in life until the CIA reached out to him. He was offered a fresh new start in America where skill and competency mattered more than whatever your family members did. Now, he'll do whatever the CIA asks of him even if it involves gunning down his own countrymen in Japan regardless of whether or not they're even criminals as poor Toma nearly found out. Thankfully Kiryu was there to help him have a bit more principles... [[DefeatMeansFriendship in his own way.]]]]
* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler:He goes out his way to save Rikiya's life before he gets executed by Lau Ka Long's goons. For added measure, he also offs Lau Ka Long as well before he can recover.]]

A mysterious individual who's only known motive is that he wants Kiryu dead. [[spoiler: Is in fact the leader of a terrorist group known as Black Monday, and has conspired with Mine to bring about the events of the third game]].

* ArmsDealer: [[spoiler:His goal is for the Okinawa land deal to go through, increasing Japan's military prowess and driving neighboring countries to buy arms from Black Monday.]]

* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:He shares this position alongside his collaborator Mine. But because Mine only starts becoming an antagonist later in the game, and Richardson being the the man responsible for shooting Daigo and Nakahara, not to mention the leader of Black Monday, he can qualify as the game's true BigBad.]]

* BossInMookClothing: Kinda. A lot of the time he's made to seem like a miniboss or TheDragon, but he's actually [[spoiler: the more evil of the game's BigBadDuumvirate and could be considered the story's main villain, even if he's not the final boss himself.]]

* CIAEvilFBIGood: [[spoiler: Subverted. Leads the CIA's corrupt Black Monday division, but the rest of the CIA is trying to stop his evil plans.]]
* ClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:Arguably the game's real main antagonist but he's fought right before the FinalBoss who's more conflicted over the matter.]]

* TheConspiracy: [[spoiler:It's said that he and his organization orchestrated the massive global stock market in 1987 for their own benefit. The organization of "Black Monday" is even named after the nickname given to said event.]]

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: He falls off Toto Hospital, ''which is 30 stories high'', or rather, gets ''suplexed'' off one]].

* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler:Gives a couple rather hammy ones after the FinalBoss. Disturbingly, he does so after getting shot through the chest and bleeding from the mouth at one point.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: He's the one who shot Daigo and Nakahara, and the Okinawa land deals were all a ploy to flush him out of hiding]].

* MadeOfIron: A tough bastard with some of the largest health bars in the game. [[spoiler:By the time of the finale he's a two phase boss with the first phase boasting 2 and a half health bars, and the next having 3. He later recovers in time to confront Kiryu and Mine after their FinalBoss fight. Even after Daigo shoots him in the chest, sending him to the floor, he gets back up a minute later with a cheerful EvilLaugh despite blood trailing from his chest wound and out of his mouth.]]
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:His organization is named after the nickname "Black Monday" given to the massive global stock market crash in 1987 which they're even believed to be responsible for.]]
* TheMenInBlack: When first fought, him and his men are even referred to as such by name. [[spoiler:He's later revealed to not just be a CIA operative but also secretly the leader of a terrorist group that the CIA have been hunting down for ages.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler:He's managed to infiltrate ''the friggin' CIA''!]]

* SequentialBoss: He's fought before [[spoiler: [[BigBad Yoshitaka Mine]].]]

* ThisCannotBe: Utterly dumbfounded [[spoiler:when Daigo who's spent the entire game after the prologue in a coma suddenly rolls out of his hospital bed, grabs Mine's gun, and unloads on all of Richardson's men.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Resorts to first [[NotSoStoic angrily declaring he is going to kill Kiryu]], then [[AintTooProudToBeg screaming for Mine to stop grabbing him]] and pulling the both of them to their deaths from the rooftop of Toto Hospital.]]
-->'''Andre Richardson:''' [[spoiler:I won't let it end like this. I'll kill you all! (''begins shooting at Mine'') [[WhyWontYouDie Die, damn you! Die!]] (''is dragged to the edge of the roof'') [[OhCrap Stop!]] [...] Stop it! Are you nuts!? [...] [[AintTooProudToBeg Let me go!]] [[TakingYouWithMe Let me go!]] [[DisneyVillainDeath Let me go!]]]]

* WesternTerrorists: [[spoiler:Heads a group of illegal arms dealers within the CIA called Black Monday.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:After Mine is defeated, Richardson attempts to dispose of him, saying that there will be plenty of others who could replace him. Unfortunately, he ends up being dropped of a thirty-storey building in return.]]

* CombatTropes:
** ExtremityExtremist: His close-ranged fighting skills are heavily reliant on agile kicks though he will use his hands for a couple swings and grapple techniques. {{Moveset Clone}}s of him in the Coliseums of other games are described as practicing Savate, a French form of kickboxing.
** GunsAkimbo: His primary weapons are two automatic pistols.
** GunFu: He's already agile enough to weaponize acrobatics when fighting barehanded. Add guns into the mix and you get this.
** GunKata: Both variants. From afar, he may perform a "shooting combo", firing at Kiryu with various poses even performing a sweeping shot with his automatic pistols at one point. At close-range he may throw various kicks beforing taking a shot. The QTE halfway through the last fight against him is rife with close-range Gun Kata, with the way he tries to shoot at Kiryu at point-blank range only for Kiryu to redirect his hands with blocks and strikes to keep him from getting a clear shot at him.
** ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Occasionally busts out a shotgun the third and last time you fight him. Aside from occasionally pausing to reload, it really doesn't slow him down at all.

* SinisterShades / SunglassesAtNight: Wears a dark pair of sunglasses so you know he's up to no good.

* BilingualDialogue: One of his scenes with Kiryu invokes this, with Kazuma speaking Japanese and him speaking English. The two don't break a sweat while conversing.
** Actually subverted in that instance since [[spoiler:Kiryu needs Mine to translate Andre in a later scene of the game. If you look closely at the previously mentioned scene, all that Kiryu understands is that Daigo's on the roof because of Andre pointing up while mentioning Daigo by name and then adjusting his gloves to show Kiryu that he won't let him get upstairs without a fight. Andre himself is responding directly to Kiryu's questioning though so at least he can understand Japanese.]]

* HateSink: Boorish, violent, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking giving women rough massages]], he's meant to receive scorn from the players. It thus makes [[spoiler:his death all the more satisfying.]]

[[folder:Joji [[spoiler: Kazama]]]]

[[folder:The Unidentified Agent[[spoiler:/Andre Richardson]]]]

* {{Expy}}: Looks reminiscent of [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Albert Wesker]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Disposes of Kanda once he's outlived his usefulness, not that Kanda didn't have it coming to him.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Slaps around and insults Saki's mother. Considering said woman is a selfish GoldDigger who regularly cheated on her husband and was [[AbusiveParents an absolutely ''horrible'' mother to Saki]] before [[ParentalAbandonment abandoning her]] it's hard not to cheer.

* BilingualBonus: [[spoiler:Compares Kiryu's eyes to his brother's eyes when he meets him for the first time, heavily implying that his brother is Shintaro Kazama, Kiryu's adoptive father whom Joji heavily resembles. However since he said it in English, Kiryu doesn't understand at all though and frankly the player might not've either if they were Japanese and playing without subtitles.]]

* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Wears a red and white plaid shirt compared to his brother who wears a green and white shirt.

* OutOfFocus: Despite being introduced as a major antagonistic faction in ''3'' alongside Kanda and Mine, such a role gets supplanted by his Yokohama associate, Lau Ka Long of the Snake Flower Triad who leads the charge against Kiryu in Hamazaki's stead. After Ka Long's death, Hamazaki's family is destroyed by mainland Triads as retribution for Ka Long's death, removing him from the plot entirely. [[spoiler:...At least until the ending.]]

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* VillainRespect: Comments on Kiryu being a "fucking beast" in awe after his defeat, even noting how he could never win against him in a fight.

Much like his twin brother Renji, Renta is a craftsman and [[BlackMarket not-so-legal]] arms dealer, operating Kamiyama Works from outside of Kamurocho.

He used to operate in Okinawa but was arrested prior to ''4'' while accidentally selling to "fine gentlemen" who turned out to be yakuza. He ended up in Okinawa Penitentiary No. 2, where he meets Saejima and helps build the grappling hook that Hamazaki and him need to break out. In the middle of the chaos of their attempts, Renta is able to escape on his own and later shows up on a rooftop in Kamurocho specializing in modding armor with unique properties.

Much like his twin brother Renji, Renta is a Weapons Fanatic and [[BlackMarket not-so-legal]] arms dealer, operating Kamiyama Works from outside of Kamurocho.

* StrongerThanTheyLook: While we never see him in action like his brother, he somehow manages to escape from [[TheAlcatraz Okinawa Penitentiary No 2]] all on his own during the chaos Saejima and Hamazaki made during their own escape. That has to count for something.

[[folder:Shoji Yonashiro]]
An Okinawan [[MultiMeleeMaster kobudō master]] who is asked by his student and local weapons smith Renta Kamiyama to help Kiryu learn to use more weapons so Kamiyama can sell more weapons to him. A little eccentric but his skills and training are the real deal.\\\
He becomes an opponent in the Underground Coliseum once his training is completed. He continues to do so in ''4'' as an opponent, but has no lines of dialogue.\\\
In ''5'', he's joined the Victory Road as a competitor for Shinada in Kiniecho.

!Okinawa Residents

* MovesetClone: Fights unarmed for the first time as a Victory Road competitor for Shinada in ''5'', reusing the same attacks as Lau Ka Long in ''3''. He switches back to his usual nunchaku techniques after seemingly being defeated and of course removing his straw hat to show off his afro.

* BonusBoss: It's possible to fight him as an arena boss after the main game, albeit as part of a DualBoss with Rikiya as part of the "All-Star Tag Tournament".

* BonusBoss: He can be fought in the postgame as part of the "X-Tiger, the House of Extras" minigames by talking to the fortune teller at the Kamurocho Hills construction site.

* GeniusBruiser: A capable planner and manipulator who's larger than [[TheBigGuy Saejima.]] That said, he doesn't get too many opportunities to really get his hands dirty. Gameplay-wise, the only mandatory time you'll see him in action is during a single room full of enemies in ''4'' where he works together with Saejima to take them out. His only other gameplay appearances are as a non-canonical BonusBoss in a few postgame minigames in ''3''.

* MightyGlacier: His gameplay appearance in ''4'' gives him the [[MovesetClone same slow, heavy moveset]] of the generic larger enemies. Somewhat odd since his postgame BonusBoss fights in ''3'' gave him a completely unique fighting style comprised of strong yet rather quick attacks and a tight defense.
* MovesetClone: As a BonusBoss, he has the same exact fighting stance as Tsuyoshi Kanda and he shares a lot of the same attacks too though they both have some unique attacks of their own. Hamazaki in particular can perform a jumping sobat kick from mid-range and also has a unique slide tackle. He also has a unique heat action after grabbing Kiryu where he'll perform a jumping German Suplex. Conversely, he lacks Kanda's backwards body slam, his two hit knockdown combo, and his spinning double lariat.

* WrestlerInAllOfUs: As a BonusBoss, he fights like a pro-wrestler with moves like a double axe handle or a jumping German Suplex from a grapple.

* TheCameo: Appears in the fourth game during Kiryu's segment as well as a flashback in ''Dead Souls''.

* TheCameo: Appears in the fourth game during Kiryu's segment and a flashback in ''Dead Souls''.

* TheCameo: Appears in the fourth game during Kiryu's segment.

He becomes an opponent in the Underground Coliseum once his training is completed. He continues to do so in ''4'' as a {{Cameo}} with no lines of dialogue.\\\

* AdaptedOut: Michiru's substory has been removed from the [=PS4=] remaster. His cameo in the remastered verison of ''Yakuza 4'' (see below) was kept intact, however.

* TheCameo: Returns in ''Yakuza 4'' where he takes a drink at Earth Angel in the Champion District. He meets Akiyama during a storyline segment in said district and tries to flirt with him but to no avail.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's may be an old bastard but as the Tamashiro Family patriarch, he's seriously tough with the skill to wield a variety of thuggish weapons with impressive proficiency.

* {{Jerkass}}: The first thing we see him do is threaten a chef with a butcher knife, and proceeds to blow up his restaurant when he refuses to pay protection money all with a horribly smug grin on his face. He grows out of it in his appearance in ''4'', [[spoiler:though it's not too long after he does that he dies.]]

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Strictly speaking, it's never actually confirmed whether or not he did in fact die after he's shot through the stomach in the 3rd act. He begs Kiryu to stop Mine's plans, [[DiedInYourArmsTonight becomes limp in his arms...]] [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse and then he's literally never brought up again,]] not even in the ending of ''3''. While he does pop up in the postgame Premium Mode alive and well, [[DevelopersForesight it's just a matter of convenience]] to ensure that the substories that require him don't [[PermanentlyMissableContent become impossible to complete]] so his appearance there is usually considered non-canon. It doesn't help that from ''4'' onwards, Kiryu's life in Okinawa never gets any substantial focus any more so even if he was alive, there wouldn't be any reason to reveal so.]]

* DeathGlare: Throws some of these at Kiryu and various other characters who appear hostile to him.

* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler:Despite how close the two get over the course of the game and [[ManlyTears how devastated]] Kiryu is to see him die in his hands, he never gets mentioned in later games. Hell, he technically doesn't even get any further mentions in the game itself due to how quickly it progresses to the finale after his death.]]