![]() Setting the visual template, Mann's restlessly sharp eye captures Tokyo's intriguing swirl, from its shadowy backstreets and glamorous watering holes to the teasing neon that paints the night. The pilot was made by Michael Mann who's always known how to capture the treacherous seductiveness of cities, be it the South Beach of Miami Vice or the LA of Collateral. The first thing to be said about Tokyo Vice is that it's exceedingly pleasurable to watch. Annoyed by his department's lack of crime-fighting ambition, Detective Katagiri becomes his source - and mentor. Their exploits serve as even riskier counterpoints to Jake's own.įor all his drive, Jake keeps floundering until he allies himself with a frustrated police detective, Hiroto Katagiri, played with downbeat charisma by Japanese star Ken Watanabe - who you may know from The Last Samurai and Memoirs of a Geisha. Wandering the dark alleys of Kabukicho, Tokyo's seamy entertainment district, he befriends Samantha, an American bar hostess with a Past (played by Rachel Keller), and a volatile gangster named Sato (that's sleek Show Kasamatsu) who doesn't quite fit into his crime organization. They want him to do what Japanese crime reporters do - rewrite police press releases and avoid asking questions that might rock the boat.īut Jake's a born boat-rocker, and even though chastened by having his work endlessly rejected by his editor - she's played by Rinko Kikuchi - he can't resist asking about the guy who's knifed to death on the bridge or the salaryman who sets himself afire on the street. Yet this is hidebound Japan, and he soon learns that the paper doesn't want him to be Woodward or Bernstein. In his most appealing work to date, Ansel Elgort stars as Jake, a good humored if cocksure Missourian whose excellent Japanese enables him to become the first foreign reporter ever hired by Japan's biggest newspaper. Author Interviews An American In Japan, Investigating The 'Tokyo Vice'
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