Tokyo Vice Review: Take A Deep Dive Into The Most Realistic Yakuza Crime World Like Nothing Has Ever Done Before!
Cast: Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Show Kasamatsu, Rachel Keller, Rinko Kikuchi
Creator: J. T. Rogers
Streaming Platform: HBO and Lionsgate Play
Filmyhype.com Ratings: 4/5 (four star) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
Tokyo Vice, the new HBO Max series, marks the return to directing of one of the most personal, recognizable and dazzling voices in modern thrillers. Seven years had passed since the master’s last film, but no one better than him to launch the adaptation of Jake Adelstein’s dangerous approach to the yakuza, the first American journalist to work in a major Japanese media outlet at the end of the 20th century. Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe star in a lavish production shot on location in Tokyo.
Tokyo Vice is HBO’s detective crime series based on the true story of Jake Adelstein, an American journalist working for Japan’s foremost newspaper ‘Yomiuri Shimbun’. It tells the story of a journalist who gets immersed in Japanese crime. There is an inseparable connection between the police and the Yakuza.
Tokyo Vice Review: The Story
The main story is a true reference to working as a reporter in the major Japanese media in those days. The information comes from the 2009 book Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan, which was first published in 2009 by Jake Adelstein (played by Ansel Elgort, the hero from Baby Driver. He was the first western journalist to work for the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, one of the best newspapers in the world at the time (the story began in 1999). to the process of working from the start of the application that have to take competitive examinations with hundreds of Japanese applicants Before going for an interview and getting a job by Yomiuri Shimbun, there is a very tough rule. in the selection of news in newspapers It took months for Jake to get the first news. Through insulting Bully as a foreigner (Gai Jin) and having to start work from zero knowledge without anyone helping. Start looking for news sources yourself.
Which leads him to get involved with the police and the yakuza, who become the main characters of the story at the same time. I have seen Jake’s development in investigative writing that often contradicts the Japanese media’s guidelines for reporting everything according to the police. But the story makes it clear that it’s a cultural difference that Jake will eventually learn and understand. That this is Tokyo, Japan not a country that can honestly report anything at all. Because that’s the relationship the media has with the police. And the police themselves have secret ties to the yakuza, both good and bad. The whole story in the story will have Jake as the central protagonist with a bad case comes in to keep playing. All of which must be connected to a yakuza gang that is about to open a war between local gangs and new gangs that have settled from other areas.
The police parts of the main story will be Miyamoto (played by Hideaki Ito) and Hiroto (played by Ken Watanabe), in spite of the fact that they were cops, they started communicating with Jake in terms of police sources. Both of them have completely different working styles. Miyamoto is a fun cop who plays for real with Jake. There must be something to exchange for him to provide information. Unlike Hiroto who was serious and strict with Jake. Take Jake to learn like a father teaches his son. The story will also be linked to Jake’s escape from his family to come to Japan to work. The police part will show how the media works in order to get the news, how to approach the police and what can be reported what can’t be reported. The Tokyo Police Hiroto is the one who reveals to Jake the real relationship behind the scenes. With the Yakuza why Japanese police do not do anything to the Yakuza without corruption but with a more complicated depth, to this day, the yakuza still dominate in the gray business world unchanged.
Tokyo Vice Review And Analysis
The series tells the story of three intersecting but intertwined segments that are intensely engaging throughout the story, but the early stages of Jake’s narrative for a new reporter can be a bit flimsy. Because the story wants to see the beginnings of being a real journalist Jake has to go through. He is not a foreigner who is good at working here. Rather, it was a journalist who came to the same school as other Japanese friends which the story will gradually Growing up to Jake’s importance and investigating bigger cases along with the mistakes that have been followed in pairs. The plot doesn’t come in the genre of Jake investigative and successfully made the news. But the story comes in the line of how eventually the news goes down to how far the truth can be revealed, with every news having an editor who reviews and cuts some parts that Jake’s view is right, but in the angle of the editor. Japanese news or police giving news, this is something that cannot be written down.
Jake must always balance his work with the relationship of the news source. This is the true story of a journalist in Tokyo. It’s not a series that is written for the protagonist to successfully dig and uncover something as usual. But the story has some disadvantages from the fact that the story has to use both English and Japanese interchangeably. which Jake can speak Japanese well But when it comes to being a series created by America The fact that the story will be mainly spoken in Japanese and then read the subtitles is probably not possible. Because Americans themselves do not like to read subtitles making it necessary to adjust almost every character in the story to speak English well which is strange Every time I see the Yakuza, everyone who talks to Jake speaks English. until a very lack of realism at this point Including all fellow journalists and police as well, sometimes switching to speak a little Japanese. Causing the subtitles to have both English and Thai overlapping each other, Thai audiences will also find it more difficult to read the subtitles. If there is a Thai dub later, it should be able to make it smoother. But it will also lack the taste of Jake’s interchangeable language as well.
There’s also a bit of a blemish as the story begins with a future setting where Jake is having trouble with the Yakuza. Before the story was cut back to tell the beginning 2 years ago, but the end of the story still hasn’t been told at that point. And the series made us think that it would end with a clear ending of most of the clues, but it turned out that the 7 episodes were told very intensely. When episode 8 the story turned out to be trying to sell more clues and leads the line Add new stories. Until the end of the season, there is only one mystery left behind which, in addition to the audience being stuck, still feel a bit deceived from the opening of the story to a scene like that and not telling the point where the story started at all. But in any case, this is HBO’s supremely high-quality series. It’s a detective drama series with a completely different flavor than the western one. And full of realism of the story that rarely does any detective series come out this deep anyway, really don’t miss it.
Tokyo Vice Review: The Last Words
HBO’s all around high quality series of investigative dramas with a completely different flavor from the western. And full of realism in the story of journalists, police, yakuza because it is based on real data. A type that rarely has any detective series that can come out this deep. But the story will be told with a lot of open knots without clearing and closing to the end in many stories, which looks like the end may be addictive from holding a lot of knots here.
