Ryobe Oishi (born 1950) was a Japanese yakuza crime boss and patriarch of the Kijin-kai subsidiary of the Omi Alliance from December 1988, succeeding Homare Nishitani.
Biography[]
Ryobe Oishi was born in Osaka, Japan in 1950, and he joined the yakuza at a young age and quickly became the right-hand man of Kijin-kai patriarch Homare Nishitani. On 14 December 1988, he was sent with a squad of hitmen to kidnap Makoto Makimura from the Hogushi Kaikan massage parlor in Soemoncho, and he and his men arrived as Tsukasa Sagawa's henchman Goro Majima was fighting with the parlor's owner Wen Hai Lee, whom he misidentified as Makimura. Oishi shot Lee several times with his silenced pistol and has his henchmen Shiba Akanishi and Yoshiteru Aki kidnap Makimura once she arrived at the parlor, but, before he could shoot Majima, Oishi was impaled through the hand by Lee's acupuncture needle, thrown at him by the gravely wounded Lee. Lee then persuaded Majima to rescue Makimura, and Majima took down Oishi and his hitmen Yachi Fujiwara and Kazuma Sakakibara before giving chase to Makimura's kidnappers.
Oishi, Yoichi Noguchi, Daisetsu Kinoshita, and Kantaro Matsuo later blocked off Majima and Makimura's escape route along the Dotonbori canal, but Majima was able to defeat the four yakuza and even throw Oishi into the river before Oishi climbed back ashore. Majima attempted to interrogate Oishi about who had sent him, but Oishi said that even he did not know, and he then passed out. Oishi then returned to Nishitani, who beat him for his failures and sent him to interrogate Majima at his club, the Cabaret Grand. Majima again refused to give up Makimura's location, and he beat up Oishi a third time. Oishi would ironically outlast Nishitani, who was later murdered on Keiji Shibusawa's orders, and he took control of the Kijin-kai.