Tokyo Vice

Tokyo Vice

2022
★★★★☆ 7.9/10
📺 2 Seasons
🎬 18 Episodes
📅 Canceled
🌐 EN
CrimeDrama
A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.

Where to Watch (US)

Stream

HBO Max
HBO Max Amazon Channel
HBO Max Amazon Channel

Seasons

Season 1
2022 • 8 Episodes
Hired as Meicho Shimbun’s first American crime reporter, Jake Adelstein is quickly tasked with covering two cases that initially appear unrelated, but soon stakes his career – and life – on connecting the dots.
Season 2
2024 • 10 Episodes
Season two takes us deeper into the city’s criminal underworld as Adelstein comes to realize that his life, and the lives of those close to him, are in terrible danger.

Cast

Ansel Elgort
Ansel Elgort
Jake Adelstein
Ken Watanabe
Ken Watanabe
Hiroto Katagiri
Rachel Keller
Rachel Keller
Samantha Porter
Show Kasamatsu
Show Kasamatsu
Akiro Sato
Rinko Kikuchi
Rinko Kikuchi
Eimi Maruyama
Yosuke Kubozuka
Yosuke Kubozuka
Naoki Hayama

Crew

Producer
Alex Boden, Josef Kubota Wladyka, Adam Stein

Network

HBO Max, Max

Production

Endeavor Content, WOWOW, Fifth Season, Gerson Saines Productions, Boku Films, SRO Productions, Forward Pass, Le Grisbi Productions

Keywords

japandetectivejournalistbased on novel or bookjournalismundergroundyakuzagangstertokyo, japancriminal underworld