Tokyo Vice TV Series (2022–2024) – Watch Online, Release Date, Cast, Episodes, Story, Platform, Trailer, Poster, Review
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Tokyo Vice TV Series Details
| Based on | Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English, Japanese |
| Genres | Crime drama |
| Seasons | 2 |
| Episodes | 18 |
| Release date | April 7, 2022 – April 4, 2024 |
| Aired on | HBO Max |
| Running time | 54–63 minutes |
| Age rating | TV-MA |
| Starring | Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rachel Keller, Hideaki Itō, Show Kasamatsu, Ella Rumpf, Rinko Kikuchi, Tomohisa Yamashita, Miki Maya, Yōsuke Kubozuka |
| Created by | J. T. Rogers |
| Directed by | Josef Kubota Wladyka, Alan Poul, Hikari, Takeshi Fukunaga, Eva Sørhaug, Michael Mann |
| Written by | Jake Adelstein (based on “Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan” by), J.T. Rogers |
| Produced by | Ralph Winter, Satch Watanabe |
| Executive producers | John Lesher, Michael Mann, J. T. Rogers, Alan Poul, Ansel Elgort, Emily Gerson Saines, Jake Adelstein, Kayo Washio, Brad Caleb Kane, Destin Daniel Cretton, Ken Watanabe |
| Cinematography by | John Grillo, Diego García, Katsumi Yanagijima, Daniel Satinoff |
| Edited by | Daniel Gethic, Ralph Jean-Pierre, Gary Levy, Aaron Kuhn, Michael Berenbaum, Benjamin Rodriguez Jr., Tad Dennis, Mako Kamitsuna, David Rosenbloom, John M. Valerio |
| Music by | Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans |
| Casting by | Melissa Kostenbauder, Yoko Yamashita, Ko Iwagami |
| Production Design by | Kikuo Ohta, Jeff Mann, Martha Sparrow |
| Art Direction by | Raymond Talley, Youhei Nasuno, Daisuke Sue, Tatsuya Takahashi, Masako Takayama, Yutaka Yamamoto |
| Set Decoration by | Edward McLoughlin, Daniel Teplan |
| Costume Design by | Kazuko Kurosawa, Kumiko Ogawa, Se-yeon Choi, Louise Frogley |
| Production Company | Gerson Saines Productions, Grisbi, SRO Productions, Boku Films, Forward Pass, Wowow, Fifth Season |
| Original Network | HBO Max |
Cast & Characters
Main
- Ansel Elgort as Jake Adelstein
- Ken Watanabe as Hiroto Katagiri
- Rachel Keller as Samantha Porter
- Hideaki Itō as Jin Miyamoto
- Show Kasamatsu as Akiro Sato
- Ella Rumpf as Polina
- Rinko Kikuchi as Emi Maruyama
- Tomohisa Yamashita as Akira
- Miki Maya as Shoko Nagata
- Yōsuke Kubozuka as Naoki Hayama
Recurring
- Shun Sugata as Hitoshi Ishida
- Takaki Uda as Jun “Trendy” Shinohara
- Kosuke Tanaka as Makoto “Tintin” Kurihira
- Masato Hagiwara as Duke
- Kōsuke Toyohara as Baku
- Masayoshi Haneda as Yoshihiro Kume
- Eugene Nomura as Kobayashi
- Kazuya Tanabe as Masamune Yabuki
- Nobushige Suematsu as Gen
- Koshi Uehara as Taro
- Noémie Nakai as Luna
- Rosaria Mokkhavesa as Malee
- Ayumi Tanida as Shinzo Tozawa
- Yuka Itaya as Junko Katagiri
- Chisato Yamasaki as Natsumi Katagiri
- Kaho Yamasaki as Shino Katagiri
- Motoki Kobayashi as Haruki Ukai
- Jundai Yamada as Matsuo
- Ayumi Ito as Misaki Taniguchi
- Bokuzō Masana as Ozaki
- Keita as Kei Maruyama
- Makiko Watanabe as Kazuko Tozawa
- Yohei Matsukado as Hagino
- Masaki Miura as Funaki
- Atomu Mizuishi as Kaito Sato
- Syû Sekimoto as Etsuo
- Takayuki Suzuki as Masahiro Ohno
- Hyunri Lee as Erika
- Ukyo Nakamura as Daichi
- Soji Arai as Shingo Murata
- Yoshinori Miyata as Kenji
- Aoi Takeya as Jason Aoki
Guest
- Jessica Hecht as Willa Adelstein
- Sarah Sawyer as Jessica Adelstein
- Hiroshi Sogabe as Sugita
- Nanami Kawakami as Yuka
- Fumiya Kimura as Koji
- Renji Ishibashi as Noboru Nakahara
- Toru Shinagawa as Koichi Tanaka
- Sotaro Tanaka as Dr. Shimizu
- Miyuki Matsuda as Inaba
- Hajime Inoue as Jotaro Shigematsu
- Kojun Notsu as Ide
- Akiko Iwase as Rie Sato
- Danny Burstein as Eddie Adelstein
- Nadia Parkes as Claudine
- On Nakano as Tats
- Hinata Arakawa as Chika
- Geraldine Hughes as Lynn Oberfield
- Kouichirou Kanzaki as Hishinuma
- Takao Kin as Ota
- Shoken Kunimoto as Ichikawa
- Yayoi Sanmi as Sakura Igarashi
- Yuta Koga as Shinjiro
- Vincent Gale as Dean Kudisch
- Marcel Jeannin as Dr. Edward Walker
- Shoken Kunimoto as Ichikawa
- Kako Kariya as Yayoi Taniguchi
- Koshiro Asami as Noguchi
Storyline
In 1999, American aspiring investigative journalist Jake Adelstein relocates to Tokyo and secures a job at a major Japanese newspaper, becoming their first foreign journalist. Taken under the wing of a veteran detective in the organized crime squad, Adelstein delves into the dark and dangerous world of the yakuza whilst living under the city’s (and the newspaper’s) official line that “murder does not happen in Tokyo”.
About Tokyo Vice TV Series
Tokyo Vice is an American crime drama television series created by J. T. Rogers and based on the 2009 memoir by Jake Adelstein. It stars Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rachel Keller, Hideaki Itō, Show Kasamatsu, Ella Rumpf, Rinko Kikuchi, Tomohisa Yamashita, Miki Maya, and Yōsuke Kubozuka.
With Daniel Radcliffe slated to play Adelstein and Anthony Mandler as director, Tokyo Vice was first conceived as a movie in 2013. Development progressed to the point where filming was scheduled to begin in the middle of 2014. In June 2019, WarnerMedia ordered eight episodes of the project for its streaming channel HBO Max, repurposing it for television.
The pilot was directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, the series was written by J. T. Rogers, and Ansel Elgort was hired to star and serve as executive producer. Michael Mann was brought on board in October to executive produce the series and direct the pilot. HBO Max renewed the show for a second season on June 7, 2022. After two seasons, Max terminated the show on June 8, 2024.
Ansel Elgort was announced as the star in addition to his executive producing role. Ken Watanabe joined the cast in September 2019. Odessa Young and Ella Rumpf joined the cast in February 2020. It was revealed in March 2020 that Rinko Kikuchi had joined the cast and that filming had started in Tokyo the month before.
Rachel Keller was chosen to take Young’s seat in October 2020. Shun Sugata, Masato Hagiwara, Ayumi Tanida, and Kōsuke Toyohara joined as recurring characters in September 2021, while Hideaki Itō, Shō Kasamatsu, and Tomohisa Yamashita were revealed as series regulars. The casting of Takayuki Suzuki and Aoi Takeya was revealed in November 2022.
On March 5, 2020, the series’ principal photography got underway. The announcement that production has stopped because to the COVID-19 outbreak in Tokyo was made on March 17, 2020. On November 26, 2020, production got back underway, and it ended on June 8, 2021. The second season’s production ran from November 2022 to August 2023 in Tokyo.
In contrast to many other western projects, which frequently shoot a small number of establishing shots in Japan and return most of the principal photography to Los Angeles, Vancouver, or Wellington, Tokyo Vice was shot almost entirely in Japan Masanori Aikawa, the location manager, collaborated with HBO to create innovative shooting processes that allowed them to film in previously unfilmed places and presented Tokyo in a way that no other production had ever done.
In June 2024, the series was canceled after two seasons.
Tokyo Vice Release Date
| Season | Episodes | First released | Last released | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | April 7, 2022 | April 28, 2022 | HBO Max |
| 2 | 10 | February 8, 2024 | April 4, 2024 | Max |
