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Yu Suzuki (writer)
Release Date:
6 November 2000 (USA)
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The Saga Begins...
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Ryo, a respected Japanese student sees his father killed in front of his own eyes. He sets out to find the man in charge of his fathers death and the mystery of who and why? | add synopsis
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The next way of telling a story
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Hiroshi Fujioka | ... | Iwao Hazuki (voice: Japanese version) |
| Massaya Matsuzake Ono | ... | Ryo Hazuki (voice: Japanese version) |
 | Corey Marshall | ... | Ryo Hazuki (voice: English version) |
| Robert Jefferson | ... | Iwao Hazuki (voice: English version) |
| Ruth Hollyman | ... | Nozomi Harasaki / Kayoko Ito (voice: English version) (as Ruth Hollyhan) |
| Paul Lucas | ... | Lan Di / Chai (voice: English version) |
| Terry Osada | ... | Ine Hayata / Megumi Mishima (voice: English version) |
| Eric Kelso | ... | Masaya Fukuhara / Gui Zhang Chen (voice: English version) |
| Dennis Falt | ... | Chen Yao Wen / Keizo Oishi (voice: English version) |
| Ryan Drees | ... | Tom Johnson (voice: English version) |
| Jerry Ledbetter | ... | Mark Kimberly (voice: English version) |
| Alex Hayns | ... | Smith Bradley (voice: English version) |
| Eric Jacobson | ... | Charlie (voice: English version) |
| Rob Croker | ... | Terry (voice: English version) |
| Ann Slater | ... | Xia Xiu Yu (voice: English version) |
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Shenmue (USA)
Shenmue Chapter I: Yokosuka (Japan: English title) (complete title)
Shenmuu (Japan)
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Shenmue Chapter I: Yokosuka (Japan: English title) (complete title)
Shenmuu (Japan)
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This Dreamcast video game cost over $20 million to develop and is the most expensive Video Game ever developed. The project took seven years to complete by Sega's game-development AM2 division. For this feat, it has a place in the Guiness Book of World Records.
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Iwao Hazuki:
[after his Death, speaks as a spirit to Ryo] Those, who follow the path of a worrior, must be ready to die, in order to stand for one's convictions, live for one's convictions, die for one's convictions. That is how I lived my life. Ryo, it is up to you to discover your path, and... follow it through...
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#25.4)" (2001)
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How much did Shenmue cost to produce?How did Ryo Have A Sega Saturn Games Console in 1986?
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This is not only one of the best videogames around in technical terms (graphics, sound, gameplay), but it also pioneers in a way of telling an story. It has a cinematic presentation, many dramatical and emotional scenes, but the viewer lives the story rather than watching it. It's the viewer/player the one who explores the environments, the one who makes the events happen, the one who knows the characters and in some degree influences the relationships with them.
The story itself is a little plain, and in fact this game is more like a prologue to the whole story that develops in further chapters, but even in this case the global immersion you can feel is extraordinary. I strongly believe this model of videogame hides a great potential, and should be developed in time.