First preview of “Tokyo Vice”, the HBO Max series directed by Michael Mann

The new HBO Max original series is a look at the criminal underworld of 90s Japan. It is inspired by real events and stars Ansel Elgort (West Side Story) as journalist Jake Adelstein, and Ken Watanabe as a Japanese detective. Michael Mann, the renowned director who participated in the creation of Miami Vice in the 1980s and directed the 2006 film with Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx, is an executive producer of the series and directed the first episode. It opens on April 7.

The series was created and written by Tony Award winner JT Rogers and the direction of the first episode of the series is Mann. The bulk of the chapters are directed by Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi). The production will have 10 episodes and will debut with three from the day of the premiere and then two a week until the close of the fiction on April 28.

The first trailer presents Jake and his desire to discover and write about the secrets of the city hidden for tourists: “I want to know the real Tokyo”. The journalist meets a member of the yakuza, who tells him that he risks dying when writing about the infamous Japanese criminal organization. Based on the book of the same name, the series will take on the writings of the journalist himself to fiction his experiences.

Tokyo Vice also stars Ken Watanabe, the actor with an extensive Hollywood career, as a Japanese detective. The cast is completed by Rinko Kikuchi (Babel, Titans of the Pacific), Rachel Keller (Fargo, Legion), Ella Rumpf (Succession) and a great cast: Hideaki Ito, Show Kasamatsu, Tomohisa Yamashita and more.

The first three episodes of Tokyo Vice will be released on HBO Max on April 7, with two more episodes joining each Thursday until the end on April 28.

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