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![--Please tell us about the decision to recast Rikiya and Hamazaki.
Horii: We didn’t want to make the exact same thing. The same casting, same character models, everything ending up exactly the same, it would just be a “it’s all pretty now, chop chop” sort of thing. We had some anxiety like, “how will it end up?” but I think the anxiety led to excitement. I thought that was absolutely necessary.
Since Rikiya and Hamazaki are both key characters in the story, of course it would have been safer not to change them, and we wouldn’t have faced any internet backlash (laughs). But putting that fear aside, “Who do we want to play this role?”, “What would it be like if that person played it?”, at that point it felt like we let our excitement do the choosing.
--Hamazaki also plays a role in [Yakuza] 4. It must have taken some courage to change Hamazaki in that case.
Horii: Yes, if you play the originals, he appears in 4, and we certainly thought about that during casting. Hamazaki is a stubborn, sleazy, and violent type of yakuza, right? Who should it be, who’s not an in-your-face violent type like Kanda, but rather one that’s like, “what a sleazy guy.” And it was Kagawa-san in the end, so we wanted to see that most of all.
It was great watching Kagawa-san perform. Just chopping up a pig’s foot, he brings this kind of gross feeling. He really brings that out throughout the whole game, making the same scenes feel fresh, and it ended up being really fun.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v46xlgmnsipdzy5gi4rf6ihh/bafkreih4wjpcmrbklhh57qfooeqehf4rlxj2acnp2i2ck3jn2errcyd2wm)
