The Kijin Clan (鬼仁会, Kijin-kai) is a yakuza group and subsidiary to the Omi Alliance.
History[]
The Kijin Clan was a high-ranking subsidiary of the Omi Alliance during the 1980's, with its patriarch, Homare Nishitani, serving as a retainer to the Omi Alliance's fifth chairman, Jin Goda.
In 1988, the Kijin Clan's office is located in the Third Namiki Building at Sotenbori Street East. Among the many types of groups within the Omi Alliance, the Kijin Clan is described as "Sotenbori’s little band of troublemakers," with Nishitani picking fights often.
The Clan's leadership is apparently set up in such a way that the name "Homare Nishitani" is inherited by the current patriarch. As of 2018, the Kijin Clan is run by Homare Nishitani III, the third person to take the name.
Yakuza 0 - 1988[]
In 1988, the Kijin Clan was hired by Keiji Shibusawa, lieutenant of the Dojima Family, to kidnap Makoto Makimura, the owner of the Empty Lot. Oishi was sent by Patriarch Nishitani to kidnap her from her job at Hogushi Kaikan, but he was thwarted by Goro Majima, who was also in search of the woman.
Deciding to take matters into his own hands, Nishitani murders a body double of Makoto and heads to the Cabaret Grand, and challenges Majima to a fight. He is ultimately beaten and "arrested" by police officers. Majima later tracks down Nishitani to his jailhouse headquarters in an effort to track down Makimura, who'd been taken by Masaru Sera of the Nikkyo Consortium. After Majima defeats him again, Nishitani offers him a chance to join the Kijin Clan, which Majima turns down.
Unfortunately for him, Nishitani is then betrayed by one of his bribed police officers, who'd been paid off by Shibusawa to kill him due to his failure to capture Makimura. The treacherous police officer kills Billiken and then repeatedly shoots Nishitani, who manages to beat the officer to death before dying from his wounds.
Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name - 2019[]
By the late 2010's, the Clan is under the leadership of its third patriarch, Homare Nishitani III, and is once again one of the most powerful organizations within the Omi Alliance. Though they continue to make a considerable amount of money through their assassination business, the Clan had also creates a new primary source of revenue through The Castle: An "adult amusement park" in a giant cargo ship floating in international waters, featuring luxury accommodations, a casino, a cabaret club, fetish dens and, its centerpiece, a giant coliseum where contestants fight to the death and spectators can gamble on the outcomes of fights. The Castle also has a scale recreation of Osaka Castle overlooking the arena, which serves as Patriarch Nishitani's personal palace and base of operations for the Clan.
The Castle's services are facilitated by a population of slaves that the Kijin Clan acquired through unspecified means. One such slave was Kosei Shishido, who would go on to win his freedom through fighting in the coliseum and then join the Watase Family.
In 2019, a new fighter called Joryu joins the coliseum, sponsored by Watase Captain Yuki Tsuruno. He quickly becomes the arena's new sensation after defeating several more seasoned opponents. Patriarch Nishitani becomes interested in Joryu and tries to invite him to meet in his personal booth atop the Osaka Castle recreation, but Joryu refuses the invitation. Suspecting that Joryu is actually the allegedly dead Kazuma Kiryu, Nishitani sends his thugs to capture him while he's in the Castle and force him to meet with him. What ensues is a drawn out battle in which Joryu fights his way through scores of Kijin Clan men across the cargo ship, before eventually being cornered by Nishitani at the ship's helipad. Now firmly believing that Joryu is Kiryu, Nishitani fights him to get him to reveal his true identity but is soundly defeated and knocked out. As Nishitani had instructed his men to not touch Kiryu prior to their fight beginning, the Kijin thugs who witnessed the fight are forced to let him go once their Patriarch is rendered unconscious.
Kiryu and the Watase Family proceed to mock the Kijin Clan by spending 30 million yen in one night while partying in Sotenbori, prompting the Kijin to attack them multiple times throughout their night out. Soon after, Kiryu and the Watase return to the Castle and take control of it after a massive brawl with the place's staff. They then sail the vessel into Japanese waters and send video of it to the media, causing a public spectacle that forces Nishitani to get in contact with them. Angered, Nishitani tells Kiryu to meet his captain, Shimazu, at the golfing center in Sotenbori, so he can take him to meet at the Kijin's on-land offices. Kiryu does as instructed but, instead of escorting him to the offices, Captain Shimazu greets Kiryu with a mob of Kijin thugs and prepares to kill him to keep his patriarch out of risk. Unfortunately for the Kijin, Kiryu and Shishido (who'd followed Kiryu to the meeting) defeat the thugs in the ensuing brawl.
Using information from his informant friend Akame, Kiryu finds the Kijin Clan's offices and he and Shishido raid the place. The pair fight their way through the place while Captain Tsuruno and some Watase back up set the place on fire from outside. Kiryu and Shishido reach Patriarch Nishitani's office, where Kiryu beats him in another duel. Though Kiryu insists on taking Nishitani alive, Shishido takes advantage of a moment where Kiryu is distracted to seemingly stab the Kijin Patriarch to death.
In reality, Shishido had faked Nishitani's murder and would later tell him of Kiryu and the Watase's plans: They intend to dissolve the Omi Alliance and the Tojo Clan, so they needed to get him out of the way to prevent him from using his family's power to put a stop to the dissolution. Shishido and a furious Nishitani decide to join forces to sabotage the dissolution effort.
On the day that Masaru Watase is released from prison, he meets with Kiryu, Tsuruno and Shishido at a construction site to prepare to attend the Omi Alliance gathering where he and Tojo Chairman Daigo Dojima will announce the dissolution. However, during this meeting, Shishido reveals his betrayal and a very much alive Nishitani arrives with several Kijin Clan goons to kill all three "traitors". A battle breaks out and, when Nishitani sees the brawl is going poorly for him and his men, he retreats to an upper section of the building site so he and his men can shoot at Kiryu, Watase and Tsuruno from above. Kiryu pursues him and fights him and his men alone, eventually beating them and throwing Nishitani off the structure, knocking him out in the fall.
After Shishido and his men are beaten, Nishitani regains consciousness and attacks Tsuruno with a knife but Watase takes the stab for his Captain. Before Nishitani can finish Watase off, Kihei Hanawa and Akame drive into the lot in a limo and run him over, rendering him unconscious once again. Nishitani is then tied up to a pole and left behind for Hanawa's Daidoji Faction allies to deal with. The Daidoji agent who picks him up, Yoshimura, decides to keep Nishitani prisoner and use him as an unwilling agent in their operations.
Soon after, the dissolution of the Omi Alliance and the Tojo Clan is executed by Watase and Daigo, which combined with their Patriarch's capture, results in the Kijin Clan being dissolved.
Notable Members[]
- Homare Nishitani - 1st Patriarch (Unknown-1988)
- Homare Nishitani III - 3rd Patriarch (Unknown-2019)
- Shimazu - Captain (2019)
- Oishi - Senior Member (1988)