Tokyo Vice
‘Tokyo Vice’ Canceled at Max
Tokyo Vice’s days on Max have come to a conclusion. During a panel at the Produced By conference Saturday in Los Angeles, producers confirmed that the recently concluded second season will be the show’s last on the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed platform. Originally pitched as a two-season show with the events of the series having ended […]
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Emmys: ‘Tokyo Vice’ Star Ken Watanabe Enters Lead Actor Race, Contrary to Widespread Reporting (Exclusive)
Ken Watanabe, the Oscar-nominated actor who is a star of the Emmy-buzzed HBO/Max drama series Tokyo Vice — he plays Hiroto Katagiri, a detective in the organized crime division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and a father-figure to Jake Adelstein (Ansel Elgort), an American journalist in Tokyo — is being entered for Emmys consideration as […]
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‘Tokyo Vice’: Fan-Favorite Star Unpacks Season 2 Finale Fate and Future
[This story contains spoilers from the season two finale of Tokyo Vice.] Many heroes brought down ruthless yakuza crime lord Shinzo Tozawa (Ayumi Tanida) in the season two finale of Tokyo Vice. But for many faithful fans of the Japan-set and American-produced crime drama on Max, watching Akiro Sato (played by Show Kasamatsu), the young […]
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‘Tokyo Vice’ Bosses on That Violent Ending and Having an Idea for Season 3
[This story contains major spoilers from the finale of season two of Tokyo Vice, “Endgame.”] Shinzo Tozawa (Ayumi Tanida) had dreams of becoming the one supreme oyabun (leader) of the yakuza crime syndicate in Japan. In the season two finale of Tokyo Vice (now streaming on Max), those dreams ended with his violent demise — […]
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How ‘Tokyo Vice’ Captured More of Japan’s Capital City on Camera Than Any TV Show Has Before
When the skies cleared above Tokyo’s historic Akasaka district late one evening in March 2023, no one in the city of 37 million people could have been more relieved than Masanori Aikawa, the tireless location manager employed by Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max and its hit TV series Tokyo Vice. The neo-noir crime drama was then […]
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Ansel Elgort on How ‘Tokyo Vice’ Just Circled Around to the Start of the Series
[This story contains spoilers from season two, episode eight of Tokyo Vice, “The Noble Path.”] In many ways, the eighth episode in the second season of Max’s Tokyo Vice could be an extension of the prior episode. And it sets the audience up for the final two installments that promise to be a violent conclusion […]
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‘Tokyo Vice’ Is Back — and Alan Poul Is Thrilled About The Slow Rollout
Tokyo Vice is back from quite a lengthy hiatus. And despite the nearly two-year gap between seasons — one that saw a full rebrand for streamer Max — things pick up pretty much exactly where they left off. Series executive producer and director Alan Poul, who helmed the first two episodes, suggests the handling of […]
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Searchlight Teams with ‘Beef’ Director Hikari for Comedy-Drama ‘Rental Family’ (Exclusive)
In a competitive situation, Searchlight Pictures has nabbed rights to Rental Family, a comedy-drama that has Beef director Hikari attached to helm. Hikari also co-wrote the script, with Stephen Blahut, for the feature project that will be produced by Eddie Vaisman and Julia Lebedevof Sight Unseen, the banner that counts movies such as Bad Education amongst its credits. […]
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Tokyo: Japan’s New Production Incentives Scheme Dominates MPA Seminar
Japan’s new production incentives scheme dominated discussions at the Motion Picture Association’s special talk session at the Tokyo International Film Festival on Wednesday. Officially launched in September, the 1 billion yen ($6.7 million) scheme is by far the largest from Japan to date, although it is smaller than the production incentives offered by many […]
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‘Tokyo Vice’ Producer Alan Poul Talks Season 2, Why Japan’s Capital Is the “Most Difficult” City to Shoot
American director and producer Alan Poul is best known to the industry for his work on prestige HBO series like Six Feet Under, The Newsroom and Big Love, but his career began, improbably, on a soundstage on the west side of Tokyo, Japan. After graduating with a degree in Japanese language and literature from Yale […]
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Non-English Content Has a Bigger Shot Than Ever at This Year’s Emmys
In March, Netflix’s Squid Game made history with its SAG Award wins for best actor and best actress, making it the first non-English-language series to take home those honors. The hugely popular South Korean drama is now an Emmy frontrunner, and it’s likely it will be the first non-English show to earn a series nom […]
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How ‘Severance,’ ‘Tokyo Vice’ and ‘WeCrashed’ Sound Pros Built Very Different Sonic Environments
The sound editors on these series had to create familiar, yet slightly unreal, soundscapes for their respective dramas.
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