Autumn TV Finales - Tokyo Vice - Season One

Post 100 for 2022, celebrates HBO Max title, Tokyo Vice. Just as I was concluding season one, the series was renewed for a second season!

Based on the 2009 book of the same name by Jake Adelstein. Starring Ansel Elgort & Ken Watanabe the series premiered on April 7, 2022, on HBO Max or Paramount Plus in Australia.

This marks the finale of my Autumn TV Finales series. Tomorrow you will find out how I RATED all the shows from the last few months.

In 1999, American journalist Jake Adelstein has relocated to Tokyo and must pass a written exam in Japanese to have the chance to join the staff of a major Japanese newspaper. 

He succeeds in becoming their first foreign-born journalist and starts at the very bottom. Taken under the wing of a veteran detective in the vice squad, he starts to explore the dark and dangerous world of the Japanese yakuza.

Alongside Elgort and Watanabe Tokyo Vice stars Ella Rumpf, Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Hideaki Itō, Show Kasamatsu and Tomohisa Yamashita, Shun Sugata, Masato Hagiwara, Ayumi Tanida & Kōsuke Toyohara.

This series had me hooked from early on. HBO Max is truly on fire with their recent titles, Hacks, The Flight Attendant and Minx.

Elgort shines in the sometimes dark setting of Tokyo. I am so excited to see more episodes of this interesting, crime, true story where we see an American in Japan.

This was definitely one of the series the last three months. RATED will be back tomorrow. Then we step into the Winter TV Finales with Barry, season three. A fellow HBO title.