‘Tokyo Vice’ Trailer is Intense – Michael Mann is Back
The first Tokyo Vice trailer exposes the real Tokyo – it’s not all anime, weird fashion trends, and sushi.
I’d like to start by noting that this is a Michael Mann project and he directed the pilot. Heat, The Insider, Miami Vice – that Michael Mann.
The story is based on American journalist Jake Adelstein‘s non-fiction first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police at the turn of the millennium. No one is who or what they seem in the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo. The first trailer shows Jake’s experiences at the paper he works for. He’s not taken seriously at the start, but that changes as he digs into the underbelly of the city.
Check out the first Tokyo Vice trailer…
Adelstein spent 12 years at one of Japan’s largest papers covering the crime beat. He worked on murders, corruption, and the Yakuza. The show looks to be focusing on his expose on Tadamasa Goto, which earned the journalist multiple death threats. We’re not just talking ground-level mob bosses here, the implications of what he found were on an international level.
I’m not going to say no to a show with Ken Watanabe and produced by Michael Mann. I’m just not. It’s a bonus that the story is really intriguing. My one hope is that Elgort isn’t as bad as he comes off in this first look.
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Tokyo Vice Synopsis & Cast
Loosely inspired by American journalist Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat, the crime drama series, filmed on location in Tokyo, captures Adelstein’s (played by Ansel Elgort) daily descent into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo in the late ’90s, where nothing and no one is truly what or who they seem.
The cast is led by Ken Watanabe and Ansel Elgort. Also included are Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Ella Rumpf, Hideaki Ito, Sho Kasamatsu, and Tomohisa Yamashita.
The first 3 episodes of Tokyo Vice drops on April 7 on HBO Max.
