Hideki Sasai

Hideki Sasai (, Sasai Hideki) is a character featured in Yakuza 4. He is the former patriarch of the Sasai Family.
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Being a homeless person, Sasai has an unkempt appearance with dirty clothing. He appears to be catatonic and likely suffered from dementia. He has a full beard and his hair is going gray. He appears to not be able to stand without assistance.
=== Attire ===
Sasai wears a green beanie, a brown wool two button coat, a white shirt, a white scarf, gray pants, and white sneakers. He carries a red cane with a gray handle.
=== Personality ===
Before his descent into dementia, Sasai was implied to be an old school and honorable yakuza who believed in fighting his own battles and protecting those who were weaker than him. Saejima often brings up the lessons he's learned from his former patriarch during his substories.
==Background==
Sasai first met a 15-year-old Saejima in Kamurocho while he was shaking people down in an attempt to earn enough money to pay for his sister's medical treatment. Sasai took a shine to the young man and offered to pay for Yasuko's treatment in exchange for Saejima joining the Sasai Family. 
During 1985, Sasai worked with the Dojima Family to assassinate key members of the Ueno Seiwa Clan, sending Saejima to work alongside Majima on the hit. In the aftermath of the Yoshiharu Ueno shooting Kazuo Shibata stepped forward to mediate between the Tojo Clan and the surviving Ueno, leading Sasai to correctly realize he had been set up. Fearing reprisal, he disbanded the Sasai Family and went into hiding, however was found by the Ueno Seiwa Clan and attacked. He was found by Majima some months later and was taken to Purgatory, but had gone catatonic during that time. 
== Involvement ==
=== Yakuza 4: 2010 ===
Sasai reunites with Taiga Saejima through The Florist of Sai in Purgatory. Sasai struggles, but manages to mutters Saejima's name.
== Other Media ==
=== Ryu Ga Gotoku Online ===
:A Particular Kyoudai's New Years: During New Years 2013, shortly after the end of Yakuza 5, Saejima unintentionally discovers that Majima had written an ema hoping for Sasai's return to full function.
:SSR Saejima Substory: A few weeks later, Saejima visits Sasai in the hospital immediately before voluntarily suspending his parole and returning to jail. The former patriarch had not appeared to have recovered his mental faculties.
== Trivia ==
* Sasai was stated to be found by Majima and brought to Purgatory several months after the failed hit, still 25 years before Yakuza 4. There is an inconsistency here, as Majima could not have done this due to the fact that he was locked up and tortured for a year after the hit, then made to work for Tsukasa Sagawa in Sotenbori until the events of Yakuza 0 near the end of 1988.
Category:Sasai Family
Category:Tojo Clan
Category:Yakuza 4 Characters