Yakuza 4/Production credits

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Cast

• Kazuma Kiryu: Takaya Kuroda
• Shun Akiyama: Koichi Yamadera
• Taiga Saejima: Rikiya Koyama
• Masayoshi Tanimura: Hiroki Narimiya

• Lily: Majyu Ozawa
• Takeshi Kido: Kenta Kiritani
• Daigo Dojima: Satoshi Tokushige
• Goh Hamazaki: George Takahashi
• Junji Sugiuchi: Kenichi Endo

• Haruka: Rie Kugimiya
• Kage the Florist: Yoshiaki Fujiwara
• Hana: Aya Hirano
• Makoto Date: Kazuhiro Yamaji

• Kazuo Shibata: Hocyu Otsuka
• Yoshiharu Ueno: Koji Yada
• Zhao: Hirohiko Kakegawa
• Mei Hua: Akemi Sato
• Junichi Sudo: Mitsutaka Tanaka
• Saito the Prison Guard: Masato Ohara
• Daisaku Minami: Hideo Ishikawa
• Satoshi Hisai: Hideyuki Tanaka

• Isao Katsuragi: Fumihiko Tachiki
• Goro Majima: Hidenari Ugaki

• Masumi Kageyama, Yuta Kasuya, Yshihiro Kawachi, Yasuhiko Kawatsu, Takahiko Kawakuma, Hiromi Sudo, Goh Takahashi, Kaori Takeda, Hidefumi Takemoto, Hirofumi Tanaka, Yujiro Kakuta, Isao Teramoto, Koji Haramaki, Kohei Fukuhara, Takahiro Fujimoto, Daisuke Matsubara, Yukihiro Matsumura, Syunzo Miyasaka, Hiromu Miyazaki, Takeshi Mori, Shinichi Yamada, Takahiro Yoshimizu, Keisei Ryo
• Keiko Aki, Yuki Ishikawi, Kaori Shinhara, Rina Ichikawa, Fujiya Ichi, Ryuji Ito, Kenji Inada, Yuzuru Uchida, Koji Okura, Rie Ohno, Tokihide Okamitsu, Ryoko Kataoka, Yukari Kaazawa, GENSUI Shusei Kusumoto, Koji Kuroyama, Gentoku, Hiroko Sakuragawa, Keiichi Shizuka, Manabu Zitsukawa, Kozue Shinozaki, Goh Shinohara, Syo Sei, Shigeru Sugimoto, Keita Suzuki, Takeshi Seto, Song Ryao, Chiyomi Takahashi, TASUKU, CYO, Yoshi Tsuji, Nanoka Nakamura, Ai Futamura, Yuichi Furukawa, Takeshi Maeda, Akira Matushita, Kei Mizusawa, Nami Mizuno, Yusaku Muto, MURAKO, Shigeomi Yamaguchi, Takeshi Yamane, So Yoki, Suwaru Ryu, Marc Nino Cellucci
• Liu Yabing, Lim Eunsil, Xu Yixwan, Yao Yi, Jeong Daejin, Woo Heetaek, Cho Hyangwon
• Cub ELISE Cast: Nami Harada, Kayo Wada, Hina Sakurai

• Love in Heart "Mari": Mari Yaguchi

• Hostess: Rio, Maya Mroi, Himeka Kawasaki, Shizuka Saito, Noa Mizutani, Erena Aihara, Chihiro Ikki

• Cameo Appearance: Fukushi Ochiai, Mayu Oya, Eri Arimura
• Ring Announcer: Kei Grant

• Hiroaki Arai: Ikki Sawamura

• Seishiro Munakata: Kinya Kitaoji

"Yakuza 4" Development Team

• Director: Jun Orihara
• Art Director: Kazuki Hosokawa
• Programming Director: Koji Tokieda
• Battle Game Design Lead: Tadashi Okuda
• Adventure Game Design Lead: Takeshi Tanaka, Kazunobu Takeuchi
• Music Director: Haruyoshi Tomita

"Yakuza 4" Production Team

• Script Assistant & Hostess Club Lead: Koji Yoshida
• Adventure Game Design: Mariko Kawase , Kotaro Motohashi, Yasuaki Uehara, Yusaku Mizuno, Yuta Toyoma, Yousuke Minami
• Battle Game Design: Ryosuke Horii, Shinnosuke Hirasawa
• Sub-Story Assistance: Koji Goto
• Production Assistance: Izumi Tanaka

• Production Assistant: Risa Miyatake, Ryota Ishikawa

"Yakuza 4" Design Team

• Background Art Lead: Naoki Someya
• Background Art: Michihiko Hatoyama, Eiji Hamatsu, Kumiko Sakurai, Mari Tamayose, Michiko Hirasako, Keisuke Zama, Masashi Kuma, Mayo Sudo, Gyou Ueda, Tomoyasu Nakai, Ayako Okamura
• Character Model Art Lead: Saizo Nagai
• Character Model Art: Kenichiro Kimizuka, Maiko Hagiwara, Paku Sugiura, Chiharu Ariga, Kohei Watanabe, Shin Oonoda, Kei Okamoto
• Adventure Animation Lead: Yuji Saito
• Adventure Animation: Sota Kikuchi, Kazuhito Tamukai, Shinsuke Kajiki, Michitsugu Komine, Yuki Kato, Yousuke Takahashi
• Battle Animation Lead: Takayuki Sorimachi
• Battle Animation: Masaaki Wanifuchi, Mieko Aijma, Shinya Shimada, Kazuhiro Izaki, Masayuki Ito, Koji Kawasaki
• Event Sequence Lead: Yuichi Higuchi
• Event Production: Tomohiko Takeuchi, Katsuaki Kawahara, Sho Inoue, Marie Tomita, Makoto Ichimura
• Visual Effect Lead: Takashi Iwade
• Visual Effect: Shinpei Okamoto
• Interface Design Lead: Chigaku Fukuhara
• Interface Design Production: Miho Nakamura, Yosuke Karasawa, Yayoi Sekiguchi, Junpei Matsuda
• Properties Production Lead: Takahiro Yamada
• Properties Production: Syuto Matsuo, Masatsugu Saito
• Art Production Assistance: Nobuaki Mitake, Misato Mitani

"Yakuza 4" Programming Team

• Sub-Chief Programmer: Yutaka Ito
• Adventure Mode Programming: Yusuke Sekine, Yoshikazu Shibayama
• Battle Action Programming: Tomoaki Nakamura, Sumito Nakai
• Event Programming: Daiki Tsuchimoto
• Graphics Programming: Eiji Takaki, Takashi Togo
• Interface Programming: Shinki Kagawa
• Background Programming: Naoki Sakaue
• Character Programming: Kouta Sato
• Sounds Programming: Fumiyoshi Shimohara
• System Programming: Shoji Katsuragawa, Yosuke Yamazaki, Takashi Atsu, Naohiro Warama
• Sequence Programming: Tamotsu Maeno, Tomonobu Takahashi
• Programming Assistance: Tetsuya Kaku, Kazuhisa Hasuoka, Tetsu Yoshimitsu, Kazunori Oyama, Hisashi Endo, Jun Tokuhara, Yoichi Ishikawa, Yoshiaki Hattori, Hitoshi Oda, Fumiaki Hara, Eisuke Ito, Yuki Inagawa, Tatsuya Kato, Chiaki Sugiyama

"Yakuza 4 Sound Team

• Sound Lead: Fumiyoshi Shimohara
• Sounds Production Lead: Hidenori Shoji
• Sound Effect Production: Yuri Fukuda, Takashi Nagasaka, Naofumi Hataya, Maeda Tatsuyuki, Masaru Setsumaru, Tomonori Sawada, Hideki Abe, Tadashi Kinukawa
• Music Composer: Kenichi Tokoi, Yasuhiro Takagi, Mitsuharu Fukuyama, Ryohei Okino, Chihiro Aoki, Takahiro Kai, Yuichi Kanatani
• Original Score: Hideaki Kobayashi
• Interpretation Assistance: Jun Senoue, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Yuka Yoshida, Ryo Urushibata
• Recording Engineer: Naoyuki Machida
• Special Assistance: Hiro

Facial Animation Engine Assistance:

• • Team Leader: Yuichi Kudo
  • Designer: Megumi Hatanaka
  • Programmer: Kazunori Nakamura, Yoshiki Sakamoto

"Yakuza 4" Technical Support Team

• Developer Support Manager: Mitsunori Fujimoto
• Support Staff: Hisato Tanaka, Yukie Hisadomi, Wataru Yamanaka, Syuichi Oba, Yuki Umeki, Yusuke Yanagisawa, Yoko Washino, Koji Matsumoto

Development Assistance

Animation Capture Assistance

• SEGA Motion Capture Team: Takeo Iwata, Hitoshi Noda, Masaki Odagiri, Shinya Sanada, Eri Tabei, Osamu Sato, Misako Ikeda
• Crescent, Inc.: Hajime Kotani, Masayuki Wakai, Tadayuki Suzuki, Takaya Fukushima, Yoshitaka Honma, Gilles Brossard

C.G. Movie Production Assistance

SEGASAMMY Visual Entertainment inc.

• Line Producer: Masahito Inamura
• Project MAnager: Ayano Fukuda
• Visual Effect: Daniel Perez Ferreira, Yoshihisa Inoue, Daisuke Satoyoshi, Syuntaro Furukawa, Keiko Toda
• Compositing: Hirokazu Ayukawa, Norifumi Akai
• System: Takamasa Matsunari

• Data Support/Program Support: SEGA GOLFCLUB Development Team
• Hostess-Club Episode Assistance: Yuichi Ogawara

Production Assistance

Video Production Assistance

MIDEA Inc.

• Creative Director: Mikitada Yamamoto
• Producer: Atsuki Ichikawa, Kazuhito Hirano
• Director: Toshio Yasuda, Hisashi Murakumo (NewestWorks, Inc.), Takeshi Kawabuchi (UNO.), Yoshinari Fuse
• Production Manager: Hirotoshi Yamane, Yukiko Takagi (NewestWorks, Inc.), Toshima Syojiro
• Storyboarding Assistance: Hiroyuki Shimizu, Kazuo Yorikane, TUETUE KOMBINATO, IPM Tokyo Co.,Ltd.
• Script Assistance: Makoto Itakura, Ryohei Terui (BigFace Co,. Ltd.)
• Casting Assistance: Yasu Fukumitsu (BigFace Co,. Ltd.)
• Hair Make-Up Artist: Kijyuro Hasegawa (JULLY Co.)

Tattoo Design

• Horitomo

Event Motion Performance

• Kazuma Kiryu: Masanori Mimoto
• Performer: Akihiro Haga, Kensuke Sonomura, Keiichi Asada, Takayuki Yamamoto, Miho Ishikawa, Yumeno Hosoi, Makisuke Okamura, Naoki Hayashida

Battle Action Coordinate

ALPHA STUNTS Inc.

• Director: Tatsuro Koike
• Performer: Akihiro Noguchi, Makoto Arakawa, Makoto Ito, Masaki Inatome, Masafumi Ohishi, Koji Kawamoto, Hideki Sugiguchi, Junya Matsukami

Event Movie Production Assistance

DIGITAL FRONTIER Inc.

• CG Producer: Yusaku Toyoshima, Takehisa Yoshimura
• CG Director: Ohtsuka Yasuhiro
• Senior Designer: Yukinobu Fujimatsu, Kazuaki Kanou
• Chief Designer: Nobuaki Enomoto, Kiyoshi Ishimaru, Hiroyuki Okada, Hiroyasu Kondo, Yuu Takahashi, Kouichi Kishimoto, Yasutaka Akama, Takeshi Kamegawa, Shinichi Osawa, Hideharu Matsukawa
• Designer: Takamasa Kanai, Daisuke Kondo, Yuichiro Ishizuka, Ayumi Hosono, Natsuko Dobashi, Hiroki Ando, Naoyuki Takeda, Kiyotaka Hirata, Shuhei Kitano, Nao Tsujimura, Daichichi Hashimoto, Takayuki Yafune, Yasuaki Ikeda, Atsushi Saito, Tomomi Iwabuchi, Markio Egawa, Naofumi Tomura, Hirokazu Tono, Yoko Miyauchi, Kyoko Yonemoto, Yosuke Yamada, Tomohito Masuo, Akinori Ishikawa, Hiroya Wakui, Tomonori Miyawaki, Yosuke Iwasaki, Yuki Tajima, Yuka Kanbayashi, Tomoyuki Takae, Takuya Iida, Hideo Isoda, Hidetake Kanemaki, Mayu Ito
• Technical Director: Atsushi Tsugaruya
• Production Manager: Toshihiko Ueguchi
• Assistant Production Manager: Asako Sato
• Motion Capture Unit:
  • Technical Director: Kouki Koshita
  • Technical Assistant: Hitoshi Araki, TadafumiTsuchiya

Character/Animation Product Assistance

IJO Limited Partnership Company

• Producer: Koji Kudo
• Animation Product: Kazuaki Kitazawa, Hidenori Kobayashi, Akio Murakawa, Makoto Koizumi

AVANT Inc.

• Producer: Junko Sakurai
• Designer: Naofumi Sugimoto

Digital Frontier Inc.

• Chief Dresigner: Atsushi Morimoto
• Designer: Yuto Imatsuji, Yuki Haratake, Takahiro Takahashi

Game Programming Assistance

• Usapyon Software Development: Yasuhiro Ike

3 D Digitizing Assistance

GENERALASAHI Co.,Ltd.

• 3D Scan Directors: Syuji Iwamatsu
• 3D Scan Artist: Hiromitsu Hirashima

GA XROSSING Co.,Ltd.

• Texture Shot/Photographer: Yuji Kimura, Hirotaka Fujita

Music Production Assistance/Recording Assistance

MIT GATHERING Co.,Ltd.

• Composer: YOSHITSURU EIJI
• Recording Engineer: Naoki Sakurai, Hideyuki Yoshikawa, Yuki Yasojima
• Assistant Engineer: Sosuke Tsujinaka, Yuya Sato
• Sound Director: Keisuke Hara

POPHOLIC Inc.

• Recording Engineer: Masahiro Fukuhara

HealingBone Inc.

• Casting: Miyako Okayama

Onyko House Co.

• Recording Engineer: Yuki Ota, Shigero Sakura
• Studio Management: Kumiko Arai

WangGang Inc.

• Recording Engineer: Hisaaki Oshima

UP-FRONT STYLE Co.,Ltd.

• Casting: Nami Harada

Studio Madams Ltd.

• Recording Engineer: Akihiko Matsuda
• Assistant Engineer: Kozue Shinozaki

be-cause,Inc.

• Coordinator: Harumi Ogawa

Flarewave inc.

• Sound Producer: Hideaki Miyamoto
• Composer: LOVE SOUND SYSTEM system (DJ Giuliano, Yoshji Kobayashi, Ayako)
• Mixer: Leftbrown

Little WING CO.,LTD.

• Original Score Production: Hiroshi Furukawa

Music Production Assistance

• Composer: Atsushi Yamaji, Toru Ishizuka, Takashi Izeki, CITROBAL, Minako Seki (DIGITAL SONIC DESIGN)
• Recording Engineer: Masashi Kaneko
• Vocal: Masa Inoue, Mayumi Koizumi, Kana Mizuki
• Kiyoka-Strings:
  • 1Vln: Miho Shimogawa
  • 2Vln: Mika Oi
  • Velo: Fumi Hosokawa
  • Viola: ☆KIYOKA☆
  • Sax: Yoshio Iwamoto
• Re-Mixer: Takahiro Yotsuya (marny), NAOKI (GWS)
• Special Thanks: noisycroak Co.,Ltd, AM R&D Dept.#1 Sound Section, AM R&D Dept.#2 Sound Section

Casting Assistance

AoniProduction Co.,Ltd.

• Producer: Katsuaki Ikeda
• Manager: Sachiko Sekine

LOCALIZATION

SEGA of Japan Staff Credits

• Product Development:
  • Programming Lead: Tamotsu Maeno
  • System Programming: Tomonori Oshita
  • Interface Design Production: Miho Nakamura
  • Game Design: Mariko Kawase
  • Localization Support: Hiromi Okada, Ryuki Matsuda, Hiroshi Ichikawa
  • Special Thanks: Hiroyuki Sakamoto
• Product Testing: Kouji Nagata, Jyunichi Shimizu, Akira Nishikawa, Osamu Satou, Kenji Takano, Keiichi Kigawa
• Manual Production: Yoshihiro Sakuta, Colin Restall, Tetsuya Honda
• Localization Support: Tatsuya Shikata, Nobuyuki Minato, Ai Sato
• Text Localization: Pole To Win Co., Ltd.

SEGA of America Staff Credits

• CEO: Mike Hayes
• President/COO: Masanao Maeda
• Senior Producer : Yasuhiro Noguchi
• Development Director: Patrick Riley
• Senior VP of Product Development: Bret Berry
• Executive VP of Marketing and Sales: Alan Pritchard
• Senior VP of Publishing and Content: Rob Lightner
• Senior Publishing Manager: Katrin Darolle
• Senior Director of Marketing: Darren Williams
• Senior Brand Manager: David Bamberger
• Public Relations Manager: Thu Nguyen
• Senior Public Relations Manager:Kerstin Mueller, Fabian Doehla
• Senior Creative Services Manager: Jen Groeling
• Media and Events Manager: Teri Higgins
• First Party Manager: Sarah Elliot
• Assistant First Party Manager: Queenie Magsakay
• Associate Production Manager: Heather Lucchetti
• Graphic Designer: Marco Garcia
• Video Production Manager: Carl Smolka
• Assistant Video Editor: Greg Ammen
• Senior Web Producer: Shawn Store
• Associate Web Producer: Jacqueline Lee
• Senior Web Designer: Annie Shaw
• Community Manager: Kellie Parker, Julian Mehlfeld
• Assistant Community Manager: Aaron Webber
• Customer Support Manager: Robert Miles
• Senior Director of Sales: Keith Gerhardt
• Senior Director, Sales Operations: Laurie Mendez
• Director, Channel Marketing: Scott Lambrecht
• Senior Director of Channel Programs: Anna Nguyen
• Senior Operations Director: Tom Dudley
• Senior Purchasing Coordinator: Lu Luna
• Inventory and Materials Coordinator: Andy Navarro
• Director of Legal: Liana Larson
• Legal Associate: Jerusha Herman
• Development Operations Director: John Merlino
• QA Manager: Mark Cartwright
• QA Supervisors: Shawn Dobbins, Demetrius Griffin
• QA Lead Tester: Anthony Banks
• QA Assistant Lead Tester: Luke Hoppel
• QA Testers: Bryan Bacorro, Tony Lo, Daniel Quiocho, Alexander Truong, Damani Jackson
• Standards Supervisor: Stephen Akana
• Standards Lead: Lawrence Mann
• Standards Assistant Leads: Dmirtryi Khlynin, Jonathan Lalas
• Standards Testers: Austin Storms, Bernard Tong, Wesley Woo
• Text Proofreading: Teressa Guest, Camden Tayler
• Mastering Lab Supervisor: Rey Buzon
• Mastering Lab Technician: Christopher Rilles
• Hardware Technician: Matt Ellison
• Additional Text Editing and Localizaion: Osamu Shibamiya, Inbound
• Special Thanks: Brody Phillips, Jasen Chin, Kathy Salazar

SEGA Europe Limited Staff Credits

• CEO: Mike Hayes
• Managing Director - European Development : Gary Dunn
• Director of European Marketing: Gary Knight
• Head of Japan Studio: Kuniyo Matsumoto
• Assistant Producer: Hiroki Saito
• Head of Marketing, Core and Sport: Matt Eyre
• Brand Manager: Amy Hutchinson
• Publishing Manager: Lee Harris
• European PR Manager: Wouter Van Vugt
• Head of Creative Services: Alison Peat
• Traffic Coordinator: Jeff Webber
• Creative Services: Morgan Gibbons, Akane Hiraoka, Arnoud Tempelaere, Ed Bostock, Ranjan Vekaria, Elliot Kidner

• Director of Business Planning and Operations: Yusuke Suai
• Purchasing Manager: Caroline van Venrooji
• Production Manager: Natalie Cooke
• Online Marketing Manager: Mike Evans
• Online Marketing Executives: Charlotte Mills
• Head of Online Services: Adam Hance
• Community Manager: Kevin Eva
• Head of Legal & Business Affairs: Nicky Ormrod
• Legal Counsel: Polly Bennett
• Legal Executive: Saad Choudri
• Licensing Manager: Nivine Emeran
• Head of Development Services: Mark Le Breton
• Production Manager Ben Howell
• Resource Manager: Ben Jackson
• Mastering, Equipment and Submissions Manager: Dave Pither
• Senior Mastering Technician: Phil Adams
• Assistant Mastering Technicians: Cara Gifford-Pitcher, Michael Veness
• Project Lead: Nick Dearing
• Functionality Supervisor: Julie Metior
• Compliance Supervisor: Darran Wall
• Compliance Coordinator: Shiva Allari
• Compliance Senior Technician: Arron Caney
• Compliance Technician: Anthony Philips
• Administration and Finance Coordinator: Chris Bien
• QA Administrators: Chris Geiles
• Shift Monitors: Tony Langan, Chris Bailey

• Executive Management: Naoya Tsurumi, Takayuki Kawagoe
• Executive Producer: Okitane Usui, Hajime Satomi

• In Cooperation With: IKCO.,LTD., APA HOTEL, ACECOOK CO.,LTD., Es Total Produce Inc., ENTERBRAIN, INC., okinawaken hoken shokuhin kaihatu kyoudoukumiai, KODANSHA LTD., CyberAgent, Inc., Sammy NetWorks Co., Ltd., SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED., Sunrise Japan Co.Ltd., GP Museum Software Co., Ltd., SHUEISYA Inc,, STONE MARKET Inc., Sony Magazines Inc., DARTSLIVE Co.,Ltd.. TAKESHOBO Co.LTD., DeNA Co.,Ltd., Digital Media Mart Co.,Ltd., TOKYO-SPORTS, Tokyo News Service, Ltd., DWANGO Co.,Ltd., DonQuijote Co., Ltd, Nihon Journal Publishing Inc., NestaJapan Inc., NOL CORPORATION Co.,Ltd., B&V Corporation, bijintokei Inc., Fits Corporation K.K., FUSOSHA Publishing Inc., PLATINUM PRODUCTION Inc., PRONTO CORPORATION, MATSUYA FOODS CO.,LTD., Mutsui Real Estate Sales Co., Ltd., LIGHTEC Inc., RECRUIT Co.,Ltd., Watami Co., Ltd.

• Script: Masayoshi Yokoyama
• Project Manager: Koji Uemura
• Producer: Masayoshi Kikuchi
• General Director: Toshihiro Nagoshi

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In-game credits

Breakdown

Tomoyasu Nakai

• Created background art for sewers and rooftops.