# Yamegoku: Yakuza Yamete Itadakimasu

Yamegoku: Yakuza Yamete Itadakimasu (ヤメゴク〜ヤクザやめて頂きます〜) is a Japanese television drama series that premiered on TBS on 16 April 2015. This is Yuko Oshima's first time starring in the lead role of a serial drama. It received an average viewership rating of 6.5%.

## Cast

* Yuko Oshima as Bakushū Nagamitsu, a detective (Leading role)
* Kazuki Kitamura as Kakeru Mikajima
* Ryo Katsuji as Naomichi Sano, an advisor at the Yakuza countermeasure center
* Tsubasa Honda as Haruka Nagamitsu, Bakushū's sister and a nurse
* Tetsushi Tanaka as Hakubun Ishiyama, Bakushū's supervisor
* Ken Shōnozaki as Ken Tōjō, Bakushū's colleague
* Kouki Okada as Kouki Mizuhara, a detective
* Sayaka Yamaguchi as Shōko Aridome, a doctor
* Mio Miyatake as Sakura Nagamitsu, Bakushū's sister and a high school student
* Emiko Matsuoka as Yuka Mikajima, Bakushū's colleague
* Erena Kamata as Haru Mikajima
* Makiya Yamaguchi as Eitoku Tanigawa, a personal section manager at a police department
* Kim Sungrak as Senichi Mizuta, a Yakuza head
* Tadashi Sakata as Kiichirō Fujita
* Yūko Natori as Yumiko Nagamitsu, Bakushū's mother and a child care worker
* Kenichi Endō as Isao Tachibana, a Yakuza head

## Episodes

| No. | Title | Directed by | Original air date | Viewers (%) |
| 1 | "堤幸彦最新シリーズ！喪服の女警官とマル暴刑事 人情任侠事件簿" | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | 16 April 2015 (2015-04-16) | 9.1 |
| 2 | "人の再生を邪魔する奴は許さねえ 麦秋怒りの鉄拳！！！！" | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | 23 April 2015 (2015-04-23) | 6.7 |
| 3 | "秘密の依頼 娘の恋人がヤクザ！！" | Shin Katō | 30 April 2015 (2015-04-30) | 6.0 |
| 4 | "極道の妻VS女刑事!! 母の涙の訳" | Toshio Tsuboi | 7 May 2015 (2015-05-07) | 6.2 |
| 5 | "親の愛、友の情" | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | 14 May 2015 (2015-05-14) | 6.4 |
| 6 | "麦秋の過去を知る男" | Shin Katō | 21 May 2015 (2015-05-21) | 6.1 |
| 7 | "狙われた家族" | Toshio Tsuboi | 28 May 2015 (2015-05-28) | 5.2 |
| 8 | "兄が出所!?女弁護士との智略戦" | Tatsuya Shiraishi | 4 June 2015 (2015-06-04) | 5.8 |
| 9 | "残酷な真実" | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | 11 June 2015 (2015-06-11) | 6.2 |
| 10 | "命が示す人生道" | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | 18 June 2015 (2015-06-18) | 6.2 |

## Curiosities

* Kazuki Kitamura and Kenichi Endō have already performed together in 2014 in The Raid 2, as well as Yakuzas: Kenichi Endō as Hideaki Goto, head of Goto Family, a powerful yakuza family from Japan and one of two mob bosses that control Jakarta and Kazuki Kitamura as Ryuichi, the main Goto lieutenant and interpreter.
* Yuko Oshima, the protagonist of this drama, is a former member from AKB48, one of the biggest groups of J-pop and Japan.
* Before Isao Tachibana, Kenichi Endō had already been portrayed/interpreted two notorious fictional yakuza bosses in previous films: Joji Yazaki in Crows Zero and Crows Zero 2 and Hideaki Goto in The Raid 2: Berandal. In the first two films, he is the main antagonist, and in The Raid 2 he is a kind of anti-hero / anti-villain.
* Actors with previous experiences in productions involving Yakuza: Kazuki Kitamura (Dead or Alive (film), Like a Dragon and The Raid 2), Ryo Katsuji (Crows Explode), Tetsushi Tanaka (Get Up! and Outrage Beyond), and Kenichi Endō (Like a Dragon, Crows Zero, Crows Zero 2, The Raid 2: Berandal, Dead or Alive 2: Birds and more).
* It is possible that Senichi Mizuta, one of the bosses of the Yakuza and one of characters of this series is Zainichi Korean, mainly because he is interpreted by a Korean Zainichi, Kim Sung-Rak. With that it is quite possible that he was inspired by Machii Hisayuki, "The Ginza Tiger" and founder of Toa-kai or Tokutaro Takayama, one of bosses of Aizukotetsu-kai.