The series “Tokyo Vice” will arrive on Thursday, April 7 at HBO Max with the premiere of three episodes; then it will release double episodes every Thursday until April 28, the day it will broadcast its final chapter. Loosely inspired by American journalist Jake Adelstein’s first-hand account of the pace of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, it captures Adelstein’s daily descent into Tokyo’s neon-soaked belly in the late ’90s, where nothing and no one is really what or who they look like.
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The crime drama series is filmed in Tokyo and features the work of Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Ella Rumpf, Hideaki Ito, Show Kasamatsu, Tomohisa Yamashita. Playwright J.T. Rogers created and wrote the series and also served as executive producer. “It’s a large-scale Hollywood production in Tokyo, I enjoy seeing that,” Watanabe told Newsweek and continued: All the main production people come from the U.S., and it was very difficult to get the search for locations, the cars, the costumes, to match.
with the Tokyo of the 1990s.” It should be noted that the complaint against the protagonist Ansel Elgort for sexual abuse remains in force. The actor also known for being in charge of films such as “Baby: the apprentice of crime”, “Divergent” and “Under the same star”, was accused by a young woman through social networks in June 2020, time in which he was being questioned by other people for having attitudes of discrimination and racism.
