HBO Max’s new series Tokyo Vice stars Ansel Elgort as Jake Adelstein, the first non-Japanese journalist to land a job at one of Tokyo’s biggest media outlets and help expose the world of organized crime. from the city.
hbo max is full with new series and projects underway. We recently found out about the possible two series of Sherlock Holmes that we could see on the platform of streaming or one on the origins of the clown from ITEM. Now, for lovers of investigation and crime, the first episodes of Tokyo Vice, the series that dives into the memoirs of the American journalist Jake Adelstein.
The new series of hbo max is created by JT Rogers and inspired by the book Jake Adelstein, Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (2009), which recounts his memoir as the first non-Japanese journalist to get a job in one of Japan’s most important media outlets: Yomiuri Shinbun. Adelstein It is part of the production of the series.
Tokyo Vice takes place from the mid-1990s to the 2000s and follows Jake Adelstein as Ansel Elgort an American journalist who moves to Tokyo in the 1990s, with the goal of joining Japan’s leading newspaper and becoming the first foreign crime reporter. As he goes into the first investigations of him, Adelstein You face various obstacles in the violent and troublesome places of the city.
However, when the American journalist meets Hiroto Katagiri as Ken Watanabea detective from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department with plenty of experience in the field, things start to look up. Katagiri take to Adelstein under his protection and, in addition to showing him the underworld of the city, helps him to inquire about the Yakuzawhich obviously endangers their lives.
The real Jake Adelstein discovered and helped expose the history of one of Tokyo’s most powerful and brutal mafias, the Yakuza. In addition, together with the Tokyo police team, he investigated cases of corruption and who was involved in them.
Throughout its 10 episodes, Tokyo Vice not only will show how Adelstein manages to expose them, but will also plunge into the underworld of the Japanese city to present us with the perspective of some members of the criminal group.
This series was not the first idea when it came to wanting to adapt the book of Jake Adelstein. The project started as a movie in 2013 that was going to star Daniel RadcliffeHowever, it did not come to fruition. In 2019 it was announced that a television series would be made for hbo max and began shooting in Tokyo in March 2020, but (due to the pandemic) it was postponed and delayed until finally finishing production in June 2021.
The cast includes Ansel Elgort What Jake Adelstein, Ken Watanabe What Hiroto Katagiri, Rachel Keller What Samantha, Ella Rumpf What Polina and Rinko Kikuchi as the supervisor of Adelstein. Also added: Hideaki Itō, Shō Kasamatsu, Tomohisa Yamashita, Shun Sugata, Masato Hagiwara, Ayumi Tanida and Kōsuke Toyohara.
The first episode of Tokyo Vice was directed by Michael Mannthe next two by Josef Kubota Wladyka and the last ones by the director hikari.
As of April 7, they can already be found at hbo max the first three chapters of the series, which last a little more than 50 minutes. Afterwards, two episodes will be released per week until reaching a total of 10.