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Hideaki Itō as Jin Miyamoto (season 1; guest season 2), a vice squad detective who is Jake's first contact in the Tokyo police but who is secretly working with the yakuza. Shō Kasamatsu [ ja ] as Akiro Sato, an enforcer in the Chihara-kai yakuza clan who collects protection money and is Samantha's handler at the Onyx Club.
Joshua Lawrence "Jake" Adelstein (born March 28, 1969) is an American [1] journalist, crime writer, and blogger who has spent most of his career in Japan.He is the author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan, which inspired the 2022 Max original streaming television series Tokyo Vice, starring Ansel Elgort as Adelstein.
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan is a 2009 memoir by Jake Adelstein of his years living in Tokyo as the first non-Japanese reporter working for one of Japan's largest newspapers, Yomiuri Shimbun. [1] [2] It was published by Random House and Pantheon Books. [3] Max adapted the memoir into a 2022 television series.
Tokyo Vice‘s Season 2 finale, which dropped on April 4, now serves as its series finale. A Max rep, however, tells TVLine that the series was always conceived as a two-season show, and star ...
Alex Boden, producer of Max/Wowow series “Tokyo Vice,” outlined the hurdles and triumphs of filming the first U.S. studio streamer series shot entirely in Japan during a keynote at the Tokyo ...
Better yet, “Tokyo Vice” improved over time. Season 2 broadened the story’s focus from Jake to a larger ensemble, while also bringing his long-simmering conflict with ascendant boss Tozawa ...
[5] [3] Adelstein's book Tokyo Vice was being adapted into a television series for HBO Max, which would see Yamamoto recruited to work on the show's writing staff. She would become a producer on the series in its second season. [3] In 2022, Yamamoto starred in a recurring role in the Apple TV+ series Pachinko as Hana. [6]
Max has released the trailer for Season 2 of its original crime drama series “Tokyo Vice,” which will premiere on the streamer on Feb. 8 with the release of two episodes. Subsequently, one ...