Yakuza 3 holds a special place in my heart, as it was the reason I bought a PS3. Definitely not my favorite, but it's a memorable one for me.

*PICTURES ARE IN THE SPOILER TAG*

*ADDED A BEHIND-THE-SCENES VIDEO FROM FACEBOOK *
https://www.facebook.com/teamredpro/videos/1351881364958404/

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to share with you all a few behind-the-scenes pictures from my latest short film, a fan-film called SHENMUE: YOKOSUKA BLUES , which is being produced by Rising Tiger Films and Team Red Productions.

It serves as a semi-follow-up to my previous Shenmue fan-film, SHENMUE: 'SUKA HIGH . The story takes place between Shenmue and Shenmue II and follows Goro (played by myself) as he figures the meaning and purpose of his life. It's an action-comedy that includes other characters from the game, which you'll see in the pictures below.

We just wrapped up day 2 of shooting, while I still need to shoot the ending, which will probably be soon. Hopefully, I'll have a teaser trailer up by mid-December, with the actual short film being released online in mid-January. Please check it out when you guys get a chance!

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Official Site: https://www.risingtigerfilms.com
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Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RisingTigerFilms

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Happy New Year everyone!

Just wanted to post the trailer for our fan-film:

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to share the upcoming fan-film project I'm working on called SHENMUE: YOKOSUKA BLUES. At the advice of another poster here, I moved this from the Community Projects section to here.

Please check out the trailer below!



Thanks!

Hi again everyone,

Our Shenmue film SHENMUE: YOKOSUKA BLUES is now online!

Vimeo:


YouTube:


Behind-the-Scenes video:


Thanks again so much for watching!

I'm so happy that you guys noticed the little things in this. One of the biggest things that prevented me from doing this project sooner was the dialogue. For our first Shenmue film, all of the dialogue was ripped right out of the game (courtesy of Shenmue Dojo's audio files from YouTube). That kind of limited the story we could tell, because we basically had to make the film based around the existing audio.

For this one though, I just tried my best to do impersonations of the characters. Not only that, I really had to add on filters to get the audio to the same quality that I remember from playing these games on Dreamcast (just that really bad compressed sound).

It was both a blessing and curse to decide to dub this whole project. While shooting, it made things really easy because we didn't have to say all the lines as per the script, since the off lip-syncing was all part of the effect (and charm). But in editing, I gotta say placing the audio was the MOST TEDIOUS PART. There were a few spots that I got a little lazy with the audio, but hopefully nobody notices.

As for the characters, I knew that I wanted to use everyone from Enoki's and Goro's former gang. I knew those two other characters existed, as I remember that fight from the game. BUT, I didn't know what their names were. All I had was that one picture that had Enoki, Nagashima, and those other two guys in it. Had to look them up on the Shenmue Wiki page. I would've just looked them up in one of the strategy guides I had, but I couldn't find it to save my life.

Anyway, I am absolutely thrilled that you guys are enjoying it. This really was made for the fans, and I don't particularly care if it gets seen by non-fans. I just hope Yu-san and company catch this sometime too, as I'd love from them to see it.

That's what I took away from it too. Sure, it's all old footage, but I really like the direction. It's got that straight-up old school Kung Fu vibe to it.

The only thing is: I hope they can make a nice transition between the two aspect ratios if they do settle for 4:3 cutscenes. When you're in gameplay and you've suddenly activated a cutscene, it'd be nice to have the borders gradually transition/fade to black, just so that the two ratios flow more organically and that they don't appear jarring from one scene to the next.

For me, this ^ would work just fine.

It always bugged me in The Last of Us when there would be a split-second of black when transitioning between gameplay and cutscene. Just jarring.

Hey everyone,

Never thought about posting this here, but I figured I'd give it a shot.

Black Scar Blues is an action-drama feature film that I finished back in 2016. It's been in production since 2010, so it took up six years of my life. I landed a small distribution deal last year, which got it a VOD release. It wasn't until yesterday though, that an actual physical DVD was released, which I happened to find out about on Amazon.

The film is definitely rough around the edges, and with a budget of basically $5K, we did what we could. But this here is my baby, and now having an actual DVD of it for sale, it really is a personal milestone for me. I've attached the trailer below, and if you're interested, I've listed places where you can buy or rent it online. Please check it out if you get the chance!

Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwNvTT5-EhU

Buy the DVD
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07CCFZFRP/ref=nosim/michaelsmovie-20
Movie Zyng: http://www.moviezyng.com/810162030063.aspx

Stream or digital download (buy or rent)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06WGRR6HG
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffUOJxAftIo
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/black-scar-blues/id1234392802
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/movies/details?id=ffUOJxAftIo
VUDU: https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/#!content/867221
PlayStation Store: https://store.playstation.com/en-us/home/games#!/en-us/movies/black-scar-blues/cid=UV0054-NPVB33620_CN-0000000000349176

Now online!



Thanks again everyone!