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Has anyone read Jake Adelstein's 'Tokyo Vice'? Set in the late 1990s, American journalist Jake Adelstein relocates to Tokyo to join the staff of a major Japanese newspaper as their first foreign-born reporter. Taken under the wing of a veteran detective in the vice squad, he starts to explore the dark and dangerous world of the Japanese yakuza. Yesterday, HBO released the series starring Watanabe Ken, Ito Hideaki, and Ansel Elgort. The series will start to be aired in Japan on 24 April.
‘Tokyo Vice’ steps into the capital’s criminal underworld
Ken Watanabe and Hideaki Ito star alongside Ansel Elgort in the cross-cultural series that brings to life an American reporter’s memoir about investigating Japan’s yakuza in the 1990s.
Ansel Elgort takes on yakuza in HBO drama series
The HBO Max drama series “Tokyo Vice” takes the perennial story of a novice reporter on the police beat but places it in the bustling exotic landscape of the Japanese capital of the 1990s. Ansel Elgort of “West Side Story” immersed himself in the leading role not only by learning…