Tokyo Vice is the new J.T Roger’s slow-burn cross-cultural crime drama, the majority of which happens in Japanese, it is primarily the story of two men with a similar cause. It is based on Jake Adelstein’s memoir of the same name.
Tokyo Vice Plot
Tokyo Vice focuses on the story of a young American journalist working as a crime reporter for the largest newspaper in Japan, where he reports on all controversies and political dramas including the ties between the police, shrewd politicians, and the feared Yakuza.
Jake is a highly ambitious journalist who is determined to establish himself and always hungry to expose the crimes and stand out eventually which is rathe fitting an aim to have in a place where everything that happens around goes unnoticed.
Then there is another detective, Hiroto Katagiri, frustrated police who is tired of the status he is supposed to keep up with. The yakuza is so dreaded and feared it is accepted at this point that no one can get rid of them and challenge their power, hence, the cops prefer to maintain the peace between these different gangs. Hiroto and Jake get into an alliance for doing some good within a system where it has been being sidelined and avoided in every way.
Jake is the first American reporter to work for such a large newspaper in Japan and the locals refer to him as Gaijin, meaning foreigner. An outsider who is accessible to them to the outside world acts as both limiting some of his accessibility and also at times leads him to unlikely situations. He can never mesh in but that acts as an advantage for him to be distinct as well. He tries to get the internal information from officers, if they ignore his questions they would still hang out with him as he could help them with talking to American girls. In such ways, Jake would extract information in between the lines.
Tokyo Vice Season 2 Release Date
Till now, there has been no official update or confirmation regarding the show’s renewal status but judging by the immense popularity and positive reception the show has garnered the likeliness of a second season is quite high.
Twitter went pretty crazy over the show’s first season and some even dubbed it to be one of the best shows of this year so far. Hence, all the fans are waiting and demanding for a second season from HBO.
Moreover, people are expecting a season 2 to answer all their burning questions and bring them closer to a full circle.
But since HBO Max has not yet officially spoken anything on it as of now we wait for their official confirmations on the matter and hope for a second season!
Tokyo Vice Season 2 Cast
- Ansel Elgort as Jake Adelstein
- Ken Watanabe as Hiroto Katagiri,
- Rachel Keller as Samantha Porter
- Hideaki Itō as Jin Miyamoto
- Show Kasamatsu as Sato
- Ella Rumpf as Polina
- Rinko Kikuchi as Emi Maruyama
- Tomohisa Yamashita as Akira
- Kōsuke Toyohara as Baku
- Takaki Uda as “Trendy”
- Kosuke Tanaka as “Tin Tin”
- Masato Hagiwara as Duke
- Shun Sugata as Hitoshi Ishida
- Eugene Nomura as Kobayashi
- Koshi Uehara as Taro
- Masayoshi Haneda as Yoshihiro Kume
- Noémie Nakai as Luna
- Ayumi Tanida as Shinzo Tozawa
- Kazuya Tanabe as Yabuki
- Jundai Yamada as Matsuo
- Yuka Itaya as Mrs. Katagiri
- Sarah Sawyer as Jessica Adelstein
- Fumiya Kimura as Koji
- Nanami Kawakami as Yuka
- Ayumi Ito as Misaki
- Jessica Hecht as Willa Adelstein
- Hiroshi Sogabe as Sugita
- Motoki Kobayashi as Ukai Haruki
Where to watch Tokyo Vice?
All episodes of Tokyo Vice are available to stream on HBO Max and Lionsgate Play.
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