{"id":47777,"date":"2025-05-08T19:14:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T10:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=47777"},"modified":"2025-05-08T19:15:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T10:15:28","slug":"yakuza-0-directors-cut-voice-actor-david-hayter-shares-strange-connection-between-his-personal-life-in-japan-and-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/yakuza-0-directors-cut-voice-actor-david-hayter-shares-strange-connection-between-his-personal-life-in-japan-and-the-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakuza 0 Director\u2019s Cut voice actor David Hayter shares strange connection between his personal life in Japan and the series\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Excited to return as the English voice of Osamu Kashiwagi in the upcoming <strong>Yakuza 0 Director\u2019s Cut<\/strong>, David Hayter revealed his strange connection to the franchise. While working as a print model in Osaka in 1987 (roughly a year before the events of Yakuza 0), Hayter used to frequent a popular club called Maharaja. The club franchise would go on to inspire the fictional Maharaja clubs found in Yakuza 0.\u00a0<\/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=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FunFact?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FunFact<\/a>:<br><br>In 1987, I was working as a print model in Osaka.<br><br>We used to go to a club called <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Maharaja?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Maharaja<\/a> , a gold-plated palace where gaijin models would get free food. <br><br>In the VERY OPENING of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/YakuzaZero?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#YakuzaZero<\/a>, you exit the first location and walk RIGHT PAST MAHARAJA. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NatsukashiYo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NatsukashiYo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u1M6Wgy8Ml\">https:\/\/t.co\/u1M6Wgy8Ml<\/a><\/p>&mdash; David Hayter (@DavidBHayter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidBHayter\/status\/1920186166332264608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Hayter, he and his friends used to frequent Maharaja, as the staff would serve free food to foreign models. There are two Maharaja clubs in Yakuza 0: one in Kamurocho (a fictional version of Kabukicho, Tokyo\u2019s red-light district) and another in Sotenbori (a fictional version of the Dotonbori district in Osaka).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the fictional Maharaja Hayter refers to in his social media post is likely the Kamurocho branch (Yakuza 0 starts you in this location as Kazuma Kiryu), the real-life branch he used to frequent might have been the <a href=\"https:\/\/maharaja-m.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maharaja club in Minamisemba, Osaka<\/a>. Sadly, the Minamisemba branch is much smaller compared to its Yakuza 0 counterpart and doesn\u2019t boast a giant golden elephant at its entrance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1266\" height=\"713\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1266px) 100vw, 1266px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508-47777-001.jpg\" alt=\"Yakuza 0 Maharaja\" class=\"wp-image-47780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508-47777-001.jpg 1266w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508-47777-001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508-47777-001-768x433.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the in-game Maharaja clubs closing down due to the waning interest in disco, there are still a few discos open in real-world Japan. You won\u2019t find any weird mini-games in those clubs, however, so you might want to visit the Yakuza 0 discos instead.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yakuza 0 is available on PlayStation 3 and 4, Windows, and Xbox One. An updated version titled Yakuza 0 Director\u2019s Cut will feature <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/yakuza-0-directors-cut-to-include-26-minutes-worth-of-new-cutscenes-online-mode-will-be-playable-solo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new cutscenes<\/a>, English voiceovers, French, Italian, German, and Spanish subtitles, and an online Red Light Raid multiplayer mode where you and friends choose from 60 iconic characters to take down hordes of enemies. Yakuza 0 Director\u2019s Cut will be released as a timed exclusive for the Nintendo Switch 2 on June 5, 2025.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Hayter was apparently a regular at the real-life equivalent of Yakuza 0&#8217;s disco minigame spot Majahara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":47779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-47777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Yakuza 0 Director\u2019s Cut voice actor David Hayter shares strange connection between his personal life in Japan and the series\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"David Hayter was apparently a regular at the real-life equivalent of Yakuza 0&#039;s disco minigame spot Majahara.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/yakuza-0-directors-cut-voice-actor-david-hayter-shares-strange-connection-between-his-personal-life-in-japan-and-the-series\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yakuza 0 Director\u2019s Cut voice actor David Hayter shares strange connection between his personal life in Japan and the series\u00a0 - 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