Shenmue is a 1999 Dreamcast adventure game directed by Yu Suzuki and developed by Sega AM2, later re-released on modern platforms. It follows teenager Ryo Hazuki in 1980s Yokosuka after his father Iwao, a martial arts master, is murdered at the family dojo, setting Ryo on a long search for answers. Lines tied to that loss have been clipped from the game's famously earnest English dub and shared on soundboards, where this fragment circulates as a shorthand for Ryo's entire tragic motivation.