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Japanese stars Ito Hideaki (“Tokkai”), Kasamatsu Sho (“Flowers and Rain”) and Yamashita Tomohisa (“The Man from Toronto”) have joined the cast as regulars on the “Tokyo Vice” series. The series is supported by streaming service HBO Max, Japanese pay-TV leader Wowow and Endeavor Content.
The Japanese and English crime drama series has a previously announced cast that includes Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rachel Keller, Ella Rumpf and Kikuchi Rinko.
The series is loosely based on American journalist Jake Adelstein’s 2009 memoir, “Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan”. The series was created and written by Tony Award winning playwright JT Rogers. Michael Mann directed the pilot episode. Destiny Daniel Cretton (“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”) also performs.
Portrayed by Elgort in the series, Adelstein was the first foreigner to work in crime for a Japanese newspaper and spent 12 years there. His book was first published in 2009 and has been translated into several languages. John Lesher opted for the book nine years ago and led development and production.
The series tells Adelstein’s first-hand account of the beatings by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police as he integrates into the Tokyo Vice Squad to expose corruption. The series chronicles Adelstein’s daily descent into the sordid bowels of Tokyo, where nothing and nobody is really what it seems or who it seems.
Ito plays Miyamoto, a vice-detective who is good at his job and knows it. Kasamatsu plays Sato, a member of the Chihara-Kai crime family, while Yamashita plays Akira, a professional host who isn’t as honest as he seems.
Other new additions to the cast include: Sugata Shun as Ishida, the leader of the Chihara-kai Yakuza group; Hagiwara Masato as Duke, the manager of the upscale hostess club; Tanida Ayumi as Tozawa, the leader of the Tozawa-gumi Yakuza group; and Toyohara Kosuke as Baku, a supervisor of the newspaper company where Jake works, played by Ansel Elgort.
Mann is also an executive producer with JT Rogers, Emily Gerson Saines, Alan Poul, Jake Adelstein, Elgort, Cretton, Watanabe, Brad Caleb Kane, Washio Kayo and Lesher.
The completed series will air exclusively on HBO Max in the United States in early 2022. Wowow will air and air the series in Japan in the spring of 2022. Endeavor Content manages global distribution.
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