Yakuza 4/Production credits

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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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References

Yakuza 4

Books: Ryu ga Gotoku 4: Densetsu o Tsugumono Kouryaku Shinan no Sho (2010) | Ryu ga Gotoku 4: Densetsu o Tsugumono Kanzen Kouryaku Kyoku no Sho (2010)
Music: Ryu ga Gotoku 4: Densetsu o Tsugumono Original Soundtrack (2014)

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