Tokyo Vice

About Tokyo Vice

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.

Tokyo Vice is a crime series made for HBO Max and Max. Ansel Elgort appears as Jake Adelstein, Ken Watanabe as Hiroto Katagiri, Rachel Keller as Samantha Porter, and Show Kasamatsu as Akiro Sato.

Its 2 seasons and 18 episodes aired between April 2022 and April 2024. That is around 9 episodes a season. It is adapted from a novel.

Shelv files it under journalist, gangster, criminal underworld, and cynical. In the United States it streams on HBO Max and HBO Max Amazon Channel. It scores 7.9 out of 10 from 430 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-MA rating.

Giri/Haji, Black Bird, and HIS & HERS make useful companions to Tokyo Vice, all filed under detective and yakuza.