Matsushige (松重) is a character featured in Yakuza Kiwami. He is a member of the Nishikiyama Family on loan from the Kazama Family.
He appears in flashbacks shown throughout the main story that chronicle the beginnings of the Nishikiyama Family and the life of its patriarch, Akira Nishikiyama.
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Appearance[]
Matsushige has a short punch perm and a goatee.
Attire[]
Matsushige wears a navy pinstriped suit over magenta shirt and a pair of aviator sunglasses.
Personality[]
Matsushige views Nishikiyama with utter disdain, showing a complete lack of respect towards him and viewing him as someone who only got his position through his connections. He feels he would much rather serve under Kiryu rather than Nishikiyama. To compound this, he also takes sadistic pleasure in controlling and tormenting Nishikiyama, both verbally and physically.
Involvement[]
Yakuza Kiwami: 1996[]
After the Dojima Family collapses following Nishikiyama's killing of Sohei Dojima (which Kiryu takes the blame for and goes to prison for), Nishikiyama is allowed to have his own family: the Nishikiyama Family. Matsushige is transferred there from the Kazama Family under Shintaro Kazama's order, to help the family get on its feet, as Matsushige is known to be a top earner in the Kazama Family. However, Matsushige ends up earning more power and respect from Nishikiyama's subordinates than Nishikiyama himself.
One day, Nishikiyama is desperate to raise funds to pay for a heart surgery needed by his sister Yuko Nishikiyama. A doctor, Kiminobu Hiyoshi, is willing to help as long as Nishikiyama pays him 30 million yen, causing Nishikiyama to beg and grovel for Matsushige's assistance to get the money. Much to Nishikiyama's anger, Matsushige earns it by robbing stores from Osamu Kashiwagi's territory, as he was told to earn the money in any way possible; Matsuhige did this intentionally, correctly predicting that it would lead Nishikiyama to being punished by Kashiwagi. Matsushige was eventually able to help Nishikiyama reach the 30 million goal, however, Hiyoshi was actually a fraud who used the 30 million yen to pay his gambling debts.
After this, Yuko dies. Later, Matsushige enters the room of a currently-mourning Nishikiyama who is about to commit seppuku and asks for permission to expand business, but further insults him by calling him inept and comparing him to Kiryu. Having reached his breaking point, an enraged Nishikiyama decides against committing seppuku, and instead fatally stabs Matsushige, confessing to him in his final moments that it was him and not Kiryu who killed Dojima. Nishikiyama uses Matsushige's blood to slick back his hair, completely transforming into the adversary that Kiryu would later face.
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