Eiji Mitamura (三田村 英二, Mitamura Eiji) is a supporting character and secondary antagonist featured in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. He is the former leader of Bleach Japan's Tokyo branch and a former reporter of the Touto Press.
Profile[]
Appearance[]
Eiji's appearance is modeled after his face actor, Ryo NaritaWP. He is a young man of average build, with dark hair parted down the middle. He spends much of his time stuck in a wheelchair, which is later revealed to be part of his ruse to gain Ichiban Kasuga's trust. By the time Bryce and Ebina are defeated, Eiji appears disheveled.
Attire[]
During his time spent in a wheelchair, Eiji wears a white polo shirt and flannel pants. After the reveal of his betrayal, he exchanges the disguise for a black Hawaiian patterned shirt with blue flowers and dark jeans. He wears a black hoodie in Japan.
Personality[]
Initially, Eiji appears to be a soft-spoken but bold and intelligent man, protecting Ichiban Kasuga from the police and assisting him in his search for Akane Kishida with his computer skills; however, this is all revealed to be a ruse. In reality, Eiji is scheming and hateful, willing to do whatever it takes to get revenge on the Arakawa Family and completely destroying the yakuza as a whole.
Background[]
Eiji used to work for a newspaper outlet company, but was let go after he was charged with vehicular assault, which he claimed he was framed for by the Arakawa Family. Fueled with intense hatred for the yakuza, he joined up with Bleach Japan afterwards, and eventually was granted leadership of its Tokyo division by Ryo Aoki.
At some point, Eiji allied himself with Masataka Ebina of the Seiryu Clan; as he shared Mitamura's grudge towards the yakuza.
Since 2020, Eiji worked with Chitose Fujinomiya on the Tatara Channel, with Eiji writing the scripts and providing sources, while Fujinomiya voice acted Tatara. The channel presented itself as a source of investigative journalism, but evolved into a propaganda outlet run by Ebina and Eiji, using selective and dishonestly edited scripts. Because Chitose had used the channel to expose wrongdoings by the Fujinomiya Group run by her father, Eiji was able to coerce her into continuing the channel under the threat of exposing her identity to her family.
Involvement[]
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: 2023[]
Through the Tatara Channel, Eiji falsely framed Ichiban Kasuga as using his position at Hello Work to recruit ex-yakuza, when in reality he was simply helping them find employment.
On Ebina's orders, Eiji was sent to spy on Kasuga during his trip to Hawaii. In order to more easily gain Kasuga's sympathies, Eiji faked being in a wheelchair due to Kasuga's past experience with caring for wheelchair users. In order to pull off the act convincingly, Eiji made himself actually immobile by using lidocaine, a fast-acting localized aesthetic. Pretending to have been visiting family in Hawaii, Eiji first met Ichiban on the plane and the two went on to spend time together in Hawaii later in the day, with Ichiban taking a genuine liking to him. Eiji protected Ichiban from being robbed by Eric Tomizawa, and was later protected by him during his first confrontation with Tomizawa's boss, Yutaka Yamai.
While Kasuga was in Hawaii in order to find his mother Akane Kishida, the Seiryu Clan - along with their local allies in Palekana - were trying to kidnap her and Lani Mililani. Continuing to coerce Chitose, Eiji dispatched her as a spy to infiltrate Kasuga's party and gain their trust, including having her pretend to be Akane's housekeeper. Later, Kasuga reconnects with Eiji, and he joins his party at the Daidoji Faction safe house.
When Akane and Lani are found and brought to the safe house, Chitose notices Eiji about to make a call. At this point, her guilt at cooperating with him and endangering Akane and Lani becomes too much, and she exposes Eiji as a double agent who is in fact currently on a video call with Barracudas leader Dwight Mendez (the Barracudas were also working under Palekana). Unfortunately, this is too late to prevent the Barracudas from storming the safe house, killing Kihei Hanawa and Wong Tou, kidnapping Lani, and helping Eiji escape.
Eiji later has a confrontation with Kasuga's party at a club, wherein Chitose finally turns on him for good, and Eiji sadistically mocks Kasuga by pretending to kill Lani. He continues to run the Tatara Channel even without Chitose's cooperation (using a substitute voice actor), including exposing Kazuma Kiryu's survival, and misrepresenting a video of him meeting with Daigo Dojima, Taiga Saejima and Goro Majima as him attempting to revive the Tojo Clan, to smear Kiryu's name.
Eiji returns to Japan sometime after, and becomes the target of intense hatred due to his exposed involvement in the Tatara Channel, causing many issues for ex-yakuza over the years. As an angry crowd gathers around his apartment, Kasuga visits Eiji and tries to convince him to turn himself in, both to keep himself safe from the ex-yakuza looking for him, and to atone for his misdeeds, with the promise that he will be there when his sentence is done. Stunned by Kasuga's kindness and willingness to forgive despite all that's happened, Eiji complies, but hurt his foot on the way back home, with the side effect of lidocaine overuse possibly settling in as well. Kasuga escorts him to the police station and protects him from the angry crowd, and Eiji thanks him. The two's last exchange is "Bon voyage", the very term Eiji introduced himself to Kasuga with.[note 1]
Gallery[]
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In other languages[]
| Language | Title |
|---|---|
| Traditional Chinese | 三田村英二 (Sāntiáncūn Yīng'èr) |
| Simplified Chinese | 三田村英二 (Sāntiáncūn Yīng'èr) |
Notes[]
- ↑ In the English dub, the phrase is replaced with the Hawaiian phrase "A Hui Hou".
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “Like a Dragon: Dragon Calendar,” Ryu Ga Gotoku, SEGA, accessed September 17, 2025, https://calendar.ryu-ga-gotoku.com/en/.