{"id":30419,"date":"2024-05-02T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=30419"},"modified":"2024-05-02T12:41:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T03:41:01","slug":"like-a-dragon-kazuma-kiryus-voice-actor-keeps-being-stopped-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/like-a-dragon-kazuma-kiryus-voice-actor-keeps-being-stopped-by-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a Dragon: Kazuma Kiryu\u2019s voice actor keeps being stopped by police\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Takaya Kuroda, who has been voicing <strong>Like a Dragon\u2019<\/strong>s protagonist Kazuma Kiryu ever since the series began in 2005, recently took to X to complain about his (apparently frequent) encounters with Japanese police.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Kuroda&#8217;s post, the voice actor was recently randomly stopped and questioned by police about his identity and asked about any prior offenses on record. While keeping things lighthearted and comical, Kuroda emphasized that it was his second time being treated as a suspicious person just this year, indicating a longer history of random encounters with police.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u6025\u3044\u3067\u3044\u308b\u6642\u306e\u8077\u8cea\u306f\u30ad\u30c4\u30a4\ud83d\ude39<br><br>\u300c\u524d\u79d1\u306f\u3042\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093\u304b\uff1f\u300d\u3063\u3066\u805e\u304b\u308c\u3066\u3001\u7121\u7dda\u3067\u78ba\u8a8d\u3092\u3068\u3063\u3066\u308b\u6642\u9593\u304e\u9577\u3044<br><br>\u4ffa\u3063\u3066<br>\u305d\u3093\u306a\u306b\u300c\u524d\u79d1\u9854\u300d\u304b\u306a\u3041\uff1f<br><br>\u4eca\u5e74\uff12\u56de\u76ee\u306e\u8077\u8cea\uff01<br><br>\u679c\u305f\u3057\u3066\u79c1\u306e\u8077\u8cea\u4eba\u751f\uff01<br>\u4f55\u6b73\u307e\u3067\u3055\u308c\u308b\u306e\u304b\uff01\uff1f<br><br>\u3067\u3082\u4eca\u65e5\u306e\u8b66\u5b98\u306f\u3001\u6700\u5f8c\u306b\u304d\u3061\u3093\u3068\u8b1d\u3063\u3066\u304f\u308c\u3066\u611f\u3058\u826f\u304b\u3063\u305f\uff01\ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc6e<\/p>&mdash; \u9ed2\u7530\u5d07\u77e2 (@takayakuroda) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/takayakuroda\/status\/1785605270884008204?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Post translation:<\/strong> <em>Getting stopped and questioned by police when you\u2019re in a hurry sure is a bother. They asked me if I had any previous convictions, and it took them ages to double check things by radio. Do I&#8230; really have the face of an ex-convict? It\u2019s my second time getting questioned this year! How old do I need to get for this to stop!? At least the police officer apologized this time.<\/em>\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, actor Kentaro Shimazu <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kentaro_shimazu\/status\/1785686534659973470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quoted Kuroda\u2019s post<\/a> with a picture of the two and commented, \u201cKuroda came to my store right after being questioned (laughs). He told me he\u2019s been stopped by police over 250 times.\u201d We don\u2019t know if this is an exaggeration, but the beloved voice actor seems to have a real Like a Dragon situation going on in his life, and his flashy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/takayakuroda\/status\/1578251844778078209\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">old school mobster-reminiscent fashion sense<\/a> probably doesn&#8217;t do much to deter curious cops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The voice actor of Kazuma Kiryu in the Like a Dragon series has complained of his second random police encounter just this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":30423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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