Seishiro Munakata

Seishiro Munakata (, Munakata Seishirō) is the main antagonist of Yakuza 4. He is the Deputy Commissioner of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. 
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Munakata is a short, wrinkled man of normal stature. His hair is fully black in 1985 but by 2010, his hair is visibly graying.
=== Attire ===
He is consistently seen wearing a police uniform.
=== Personality ===
Munakata is a strict authoritarian who believes the police must maintain the status quo of society at all costs, even if it means breaking the law themselves. This philosophy serves as the justification for Munakata's ambitions to control the Tokyo underworld through the police, though it is difficult to tell whether Munakata believes in what he says or if his ideas are merely a cover for his personal greed and powerlust.
Munakata is completely merciless in his pursuit for control; being willing to commit multiple murders to achieve his aims. He also seems to be willing to kill children, as he instructs Hiroaki Arai to kidnap Kazuma Kiryu's children to coerce him and gives him a gun in case the children resist.
== Background ==
In 1985, Munakata was the direct superior of homicide detective Junji Sugiuchi, who handed Munakata his report on the attempted assassination of Yoshiharu Ueno as the first officer to the scene. Sugiuchi concluded that Tojo Clan soldier Taiga Saejima was solely responsible for the attack, which ended in the deaths of 18 out of the 20 targets present. However, Munakata immediately noticed inconsistencies in the report. First, despite the hit taking place in a narrow ramen shop where Saejima was fighting against multiple men at a time, all the shots fired were perfect headshots, save for those aimed at Ueno and the sole other survivor, Isao Katsuragi. Furthermore, all the victims had injuries similar to those provoked by the Tokyo PD's experimental riot control rubber bullets, which render their victims unconscious. Munakata posed an alternative theory: That Katsuragi and Sugiuchi engineered the whole scenario in order to eliminate Katsuragi's rivals in the Ueno Seiwa, using Saejima (who unknowingly wielded guns loaded with rubber bullets) as a fall guy.
However, Munakata made Sugiuchi an offer: Instead of pressing the inquiry further and exposing the conspiracy, he'll let his report stand if he introduces him to Katsuragi. Facing the possibility of prosecution, Sugiuchi complied. Thereafter, Munakata would blackmail Katsuragi, Sugiuchi and their co-conspirator in the Tojo, Kazuo Shibata, as his puppets in the underworld to further his own career. By the late 2000's, he'd risen to the rank of Deputy Commissioner of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police.
Soon after the Ueno hit, Sugiuchi's partner Taigi Tanimura uncovered the truth about the incident, as well as Munakata's role in the cover-up. Munakata realized Tanimura had caught on, so he ordered Sugiuchi to assassinate him. Throughout the years, Munakata would use Sugiuchi as his personal hitman many more times.
At some point in the 2000's, Munakata got Hiroaki Arai, a young detective in the Organized Crime Division of the TMPD, to join the Tojo Clan as an undercover infiltrator. Munakata also conspired with MIA Director Kyohei Jingu in a scheme to secretly control the Tokyo underworld from the shadows to further their respective careers. Jingu stole the Tojo Clan's 10 billion yen cash reserve from Chairman Masaru Sera by putting it in accounts under his control through a money laundering scheme, after which he and Munakata intended to use the money to fund a private prison called Okinawa Penitentiary No. 2. Both men intended to use said prison as a place to incarcerate criminals who got in the way of their manipulations. However, the 2005 civil war in the Tojo Clan eventually resulted in the loss of that money and the death of Jingu, complicating Munakata's plans. Nevertheless, Munakata would continue moving forward and would eventually succeed in having his prison built using illegally appropriated police funds.
== Involvement ==
=== Yakuza 4: 2010 ===
In March of 2010, a series of developments put Munakata's schemes in jeopardy. First, he discovers that Katsuragi and Shibata had been scheming to break away from his control. Second, Taigi Tanimura's son, Masayoshi Tanimura, had started uncovering the conspiracy surrounding the Ueno hit. Finally, two inmates from his private prison, Taiga Saejima and Goh Hamazaki, had escaped from the facility with a ledger containing evidence of Munakata's embezzlement. 
These circumstances forces Munakata to accelerate his plans to take control of the Tojo Clan, so he personally meets with Chairman Daigo Dojima and makes him an offer: He'll use the police to crush the Ueno Seiwa Clan, who'd been undermining Tojo business lately, and also use police funds to solve the Tojo's dire financial situation which had been ongoing since the 2005 civil war, but in exchange, his infiltrator Arai will be made Clan Captain and be given direct control over the Clan's daily operations, to ensure the Tojo serve the police. Otherwise, the police will crack down on the Tojo will full force and destroy their already weakened organization. Dojima agrees to the deal but, since he knows his Lieutenant Goro Majima will not agree to toe the police line, he provides Munakata with evidence to have him arrested on racketeering charges.
At around the same time, Munakata sends Sugiuchi to kill Tanimura to stop his investigation into the Ueno hit. However, Munakata has also grown dubious of Sugiuchi's loyalty, so he has him followed and orders his death if he does indeed switch sides. When the spy following Sugiuchi sees him reveal the truth about the Ueno hit to Tanimura and agree to testify against Munakata, the spy shoots Sugiuchi dead. After he's informed that Tanimura knows the truth, Munakata sends Tanimura's superior, Chief Satoshi Hisai, to kill his friends, Zheng and Mei Hua, and then ambush and kill Tanimura himself. However, unbeknownst to Munakata, Hisai refuses to follow through with the order and instead chooses to kill himself rather than betray Tanimura.
Through Arai's oath brother Takeshi Kido, Munakata and Arai learn that Katsuragi has forcibly taken control of the Kamurocho Hills construction site, kidnapped Taiga Saejima and his sister Yasuko, and stolen 100 billion yen in cash from moneylender Shun Akiyama. They also learn that Katsuragi has negotiated with Kazuma Kiryu to exchange the cash and the Saejimas for the incriminating ledger Saejima had stolen, which had since been given to Kiryu. Munakata tasks Arai with interrupting that meeting to recover the ledger, which he does successfully. 
When Arai delivers the ledger to Munakata in his office, the Deputy Commissioner reprimands him for not killing Kiryu and Kido to eliminate them as witnesses and also for not stealing the 100 billion yen as well, as they could've used the money for their newly controlled Tojo Clan. Munakata then instructs Arai to head to Okinawa to kidnap the children from Kiryu's orphanage and use them as hostages to get him to surrender the money, giving him a loaded gun to aid him in the children's capture. Unbeknownst to Arai, the gun is loaded with police issue rubber bullets, as Munakata does not fully trust him and suspects these orders might make Arai turn against him. Munakata's suspicion proves entirely well-founded, as Arai rejects Munakata's order and shoots him with the gun he'd just given him. Arai flees the scene to avoid being caught, so he doesn't realize that he hadn't killed Munakata but merely knocked him unconscious with a rubber bullet.
The following night, Munakata receives word that Kiryu and his allies have taken Akiyama's 100 billion yen to the top of the Millenium Tower. Knowing that this is obviously a trap, Munakata takes a squadron of loyal TMPD elite officers to kill anybody he finds there and take the money. Upon arriving, Munakata finds Arai in the middle of a confrontation with Daigo and Kido in front of the stacked 100 billion yen. Munakata reveals his rubber bullet deception to a surprised Arai and then orders his men to execute all three yakuza. However, at that moment a helicopter descends onto the Tower's roof, scattering the money into the wind and down onto the streets below, after which Kiryu, Tanimura, Saejima and Akiyama disembark from the craft. Tanimura confronts Munakata and the corrupt police commissioner recognizes him as the son of the detective he'd had killed for uncovering the truth of the Ueno hit. Despite Tanimura's assertions that he's going to bring down his entire operation, Munakata is unfazed and tells Tanimura that he's going to "die like a dog, just as [his] father did" before ordering his men to kill him. To Munakata's horror, Tanimura proceeds to defeat all of his guards single-handed in a massive brawl.
Battered and unguarded, Munakata scrambles over to a similarly beaten Daigo and asks for his help, since they had a deal. However, Daigo disregards him and tells him to "prepare for what's coming". Tanimura draws his gun and takes aim at a terrified Munakata, who begs for his life, but Tanimura insists that he doesn't intend to kill him, but rather expose him and put him in prison. Munakata laughs at this idea, saying his position makes him untouchable and that they have nothing to prove any of his wrongdoing. At that point, the helicopter which brought Tanimura to the roof flies overhead again and begins scattering papers to the crowds which gathered below to collect the fallen money: Newspaper articles containing copies of Munakata's incriminating ledger which Kiryu had given to journalist Makoto Date prior to losing it to Arai. Akiyama boasts to Munakata that the public spectacle they just caused by scattering the money and the newspapers will make it impossible for his allies in government to ignore the ensuing scandal. Munakata, recognizing that what he's saying is true, lashes out and shoots Akiyama in the chest, but the bullet is stopped by a stack of money that Akiyama kept in his breast pocket. Defeated, Munakata realizes his career and conspiracy are over, so he turns his gun on himself and shoots himself to avoid arrest.
== Fighting Style ==
Munakata relies only on his bodyguards to protect him while he attempts to attack Tanimura from a long range with his gun, he tends to run from Tanimura when you get close to him. Munakata either calls his bodyguards to attack Tanimura when you keep defeating his bodyguards, or he can sometimes call back his bodyguards to protect himself while the bodyguards try to attack Tanimura.
== Gallery ==
=== Yakuza 4 ===
Seishirō Munakata.png|Remastered Render
=== Ryu Ga Gotoku Online ===
RGGO - Card - SSR Seishiro Munakata.png|SSR Seishiro Munakata
RGGO - Card - SSR Seishiro Munakata ('10).png|SSR Seishiro Munakata ('10)
RGGO - Card - KSR Seishiro Munakata (Ascension).png|KSR Seishiro Munakata (Ascension)
RGGO - Card - KSR Seishiro Munakata (Assault).png|KSR Seishiro Munakata (Assault)
Category:Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department
Category:Yakuza 4 Characters
Category:Yakuza 4 Antagonists
Category:Yakuza 4 Bosses
Category:Yakuza 4 Final Bosses
Category:Ryu Ga Gotoku Online Characters